you
So, like, I don't think it's really, like, yeah, they're a good excuse, I do think it's
the case, I have to be clear, I think they're going to get the votes and they seem to improve
it by week, but at the same time, I don't know if last week was fully on the influence
Wow, so 26 with the table. Thank you so much for the full month. Thank you
It's a good thing to see in some respects because it did look like they're shooting as opposed to the game gets foot where
Last week at least they were coming at guns blazing and there was a bit of a ramp up in the strategy thing a bit faster
It's fine. So
Things are looking a little bit on the rise, but I don't think it's fully
So yeah, I think that's a big thing that you mentioned in many is the fact that last week it did feel like on some of those
Ones you were like relying on the rules when it came to finality. Yeah, we got everything good
That was trying to say no, I didn't much trying to do then do Billy Billy Billy a beating people man was going on
Yeah, and that's a good again. We heard both of them
They just purposely look shit in the whole season
But even the teams that we're seeing do well they do manage
HBG is just terrible. Oh really?
It was all calculated? I mean if that's what they did man, they got me.
They actually fully got me.
I wanna watch HBG like this.
Who's like for sure the best team in China right now then?
I think going into today's game something that we need to keep an eye on is these two Sentinels going up against one another who obviously have history between each other as well.
Yeah, I think they've done really well since his time off and I think both of them, like I would describe it as more of a Sentinel Flex roll right now.
Both of them are thanks Sentinel, but also here last week they tail on two maps.
Alpha V and the Jota 2 is almost like their flexibility is a really good sign.
What I liked about Alpha as well was his leadership of Sentinels last week.
like he feels locked in in the server but also out of the server he feels a lot
like he's taking a lot that height man duty and I think he's really embracing
it and it seems to be a very good sign for fanatic or a very good thing for
fanatic
Well I'll actually have to find out for China, I don't think so
I might honestly just go and blind into masters and just see if they
impress me and when teams are impressing me in masters then we'll start watching
more, I might just be the easiest way to do it
It's rough out here watching some of the other regions along China, I'm in Southampton for some of these AMEA teams pretty rough at the moment, mate.
Have you seen the Loud video? I saw it a little bit of that, I didn't read it fully, I probably watched it for like a minute, maybe.
They're just blaming each other.
And then they're doing that before the next map, it's not funny.
They're all just blaming each other, I'm just like...
I don't know. I think fundamentally they don't know what they're doing properly.
They're all focusing on like little things that they think are going wrong, but I think bigger picture wires.
They don't have the best structure.
I've seen a lot, they did this like a clip of them in between maps kind of trying to
So about this stuff
It was very
All right teams are
Up next because you know
So you got to pick your your background or where you're comfortable going starting things off with you Billy in regards to what are you?
who's the best breeze so far that we've watched?
I still liked what NLG did the first time I've had these, the neon
if you want the simplest one to copy that is good
like honestly MIBR stuff is pretty simple
you could probably have a fire stack
You probably do similar stuff to that.
Do you talk about Premiere?
No, we're best, man. Nice, dude.
Split, please.
I'm a big split.
It's an interesting choice from Na'Vi.
We got a good split.
We're playing that a lot, so I think they're having a lot of fun.
Let me get blinds.
I might as well be running as Fanatic.
We'll have to see it.
I don't know if we're going to see that on the map.
Yeah, I think that's a big point, right?
I think let's take it to Greece today, suggest that they've been doing a lot of prep work on it over the past week.
I'd like to see potentially a composition change come out from them, because of course they managed to get such a lead on the map,
and then when they switched sites, they kind of struggled and allowed it to be BL to come back into it the last time that we saw them play breeze.
In fact, the only time that we saw them play breeze.
Um, for Navi though, we've not seen them play breeze.
Yeah, I think they've been going square.
in their Razor Chairs, which is very important as we're going to be heading into Best of
Three series. I mean the final map that we do have however is going to be Bind, which
I'm also interested to see how that one is going to play out because Navi's Bind has
not...
Is there any chance of you going to Chilly? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure they would
have been by any right now. I think it's better to just focus on trying to get
to London early.
Yeah, push for that.
I can't go to London, I've got no chance to go into any more.
What's the strongest region right now? It depends how you, what you're looking for man.
In terms of the teams, in terms of the most teams that can win the first Masters, it is America's right now.
pick off so far it says that teams wanting to tie their compositions into the map are also having to move away from comfort and it's finding a balance there I think
overall might be being able to play comfort roles when your players thrive on but also being able to have a good read on the
meta um so yeah I think it might be America's for overall but loud really takes some
time down a bit yeah I want to keep the conversation then like focus now on splits
I'm seeing maybe it's America's for both the first map that we're going to be looking at and when we're looking at Navi they've already played it against
Heretics and KC and again kind of going back to the point. Yeah, that's what I was thinking there as well as I caught up
She got team sacred and then set her as long as their strengths on this map things
They did she like have a chance at San Diego. I haven't watched a man. I've got no idea
It's split split already against games that are currently in that lower bracket
Do we think that they are comfortable enough on this map to be able to take fanatic on it?
Like do we think that it's yeah, I think that I think that it's it's definitely everyone sticking with what they would
Personally, I think that Fnatic in a double-duest approach is slightly stronger.
I don't think chamber on this map is at strong point. I think that chamber is raking in other maps
I don't think the operator is a bigger deal on this map in general
And so I don't think that's why he doesn't like chamber, but he thinks the op isn't that big on this map.
That's interesting. I think that this map is not good because of the
Explosivity a little bit. I mean, we could do it super limited in terms of what you can do, especially on a tank.
I do think genuinely this kind of comp matchup, I prefer Fnatic.
I kind of like the op on this map, maybe.
I think that's fair, and I think if Alphear can come out swinging in the same way that he did in the last series last week, then honestly fair enough, we kind of at heart told him that we did want to see Alphear kind of flexing more into these kind of agents rather than just being on that sentinel roll all the time.
I think the cast is now on the bi-prison.
is going to play on the spread, but not really.
Like, Skye is just a go-to for Skye,
it makes things easy, to be honest.
Like, if you're looking at most teams,
this isn't a good example, but most teams are running like
10 to the jewelist, like double jewelists,
double controllers, so Skye makes sense,
because it kind of fills the gap of everything,
but because this is a normal yoru then it doesn't need to be
it's going
yeah absolutely agree and that's already something we touched upon but then also for
not excited to make the order that you like that competition
because it's also a test for them and it's how they're going to be performing
because they are now in this middle bracket as well but we're ready to head into our
first map of the day and we've got our casters ready for that as well
and just set of rocks that believe fully in this chamber he will play it on six out
of seven maps
thank you JinnyS it's time to see if you're just going to take the cake between
these two teams
if your chambers legit.
How many maps?
Ah, dude, these numbers again.
I forgot for a little bit.
I had peace for 24 hours from now on.
Now we're back in.
Did he actually say that or are you guys memeing on me?
I'm watching EMEA clash now. I've had enough of watching some of these teams, let alone watching the mini-offseason little break.
Not really many of the teams have had one thing to watch this soon.
Fnatic on defense now, Vianna time.
Enjoy the time off? Yeah, I think it's just better to keep interest in what's going on as well.
I like the speed, to be honest. The speed of this was nice.
Chow here, yeah he did good.
Boaster, I mean the call he made the call to go in with Kayak Splash
But I felt like the comms weren't great because I'm pretty sure from we were on this guy's POV
I mean four cross from the little sliver they had here. Lee saw three
I thought he saw four but maybe not
corner. Oh boy. Oh no. Oh that's a big whip man. That's a big whip. He should never
be winning this. Yeah you can't be missing that man. Oh the pistol. 2v3 pistol.
moments but also a nightmare flashbacks and that might be a nightmare flashback for Adria this kicker
picks off round number one should have been dead to rights and even the second beat once he got it half
you kind of do that's a number one, looks a good way to learn a little bit, you don't have to do it,
there's no way he survives, crush he does, damage getting called out by your teammates,
six takes for you, you don't have to do it, you don't have to do it, that's an easy kill but
oh so many chances to close that out it felt like none of them connected at a
big round for crashes he just committed he's taken out extra not even half a
second I mean could have been half a second
okay look into the redemption as boaster goes down an alfie era still
tied it looks like there could be a weakness to a nice EVM thanks much for
prime man thank you the nine months
The major threat has gone down, that's the only problem.
That headhunter, there's a reason that Angel was talking about wanting Rooksik more and more on it.
We even heard from Rooksik himself in the interview saying that it's just kind of boring.
The judge here? Yeah, a little scary.
Yeah, it's not boring to watch, and also if you're in, I don't think anybody cares how exciting you find it.
But I guess also when you are probably the best controller, maybe other than Kiko,
that played in EMEA last year, and you don't want to be switching roles too much, I can understand that as well, we'll see if
that's a piece that will change. Of course for Na'Vi, of feeling out the map, I'm sure they'd love to get an additional orb as well, which is going right into the hands of Filu.
However, getting anything more done from here is going to be difficult.
Well let's see pressure put on alpha tag glow there is a chance if they can take this site if they can deal with
Crashes and they will have a damage no matter what I guess the plant down
One of them is perfect yeah that's it done still still love should be happy
Yeah yeah really good planet
Yeah for sure but I do this was a couple of shotguns fought up alongside SMGs and a rifle so
So it really isn't too bad, and yeah, coming in with a showstopper for the next round for
Fielder, after picking up the Orbs and getting a kill, and getting the plant, and dying.
And he's done excellent work, so that's something that they can definitely look to put into
this next round, what will be up against a, I imagine, a fairly weak purchase from
Fnatic, other than the singular rifle.
We'll see how they decide to play that one out, but you'd be surprised if there's
too much investment good signs early on this line up with the molly and pretty much
in the slide you might know roughly where he has to aim from like the area
into this round it would be too much of a risk that show stop return the tide in
their favorite question is will it be used to I mean I love you should use the
razor on this one really make it nice and simple last one I got a lot I got a lot
of info yeah scouting a does honestly it does good amount of damage and a pencil
Thanks for the tier one as well. Thanks for the eight months to go up.
Cooley as well with the eleven months. Don't do the tier one, mate.
What?
Jesus, actually you nearly had two, huh?
Okay, save him.
of all time but luckily they're still gonna have a 3v2 on the site kind of
looking at Vekage though
Shows even taking this time now they know that they're here Chow speeds up
he's heard the steps and knows the player going to screens and the eyes on
site now focused in Ruxik locked in on that angle waiting for them to step
forward and if they take too long it'll be death from behind snake bite
I've got a lot of advice time, work six off times, and Michelle has completely whiffed!
Guys, don't lose this round.
Surely done another for that punch!
Could you imagine?
Because when I watch finna take it, they almost get away with it and sometimes do get away with it.
The most outrageous rounds, I swear, they really, really do.
How about the nearly one round?
They're going to show the whiff from behind. It's the whiff of Brenda's role.
And just, not even a sloma.
I want someone to appear via the entire round from Charlotte.
Just him and lurking all the time, and just slow walking.
No!
Oh, it looks like my right games.
The funny thing is, is he is so unlucky by the fact
the back has just decided to not move backwards.
I think I won't back with the full face.
But maybe we're shifting.
Left, right, right, right, right, left backwards.
Left backwards, but OK.
So hurt remarkably well.
That control, I mean, that was nice for me, yeah.
Maybe thanks to Shao.
They ended up with that round.
It's not great.
They lost so many players.
I think he messed up with Satchel to be honest with you.
Oh my god, how on earth is he on that?
I don't know, I'm just supposed to kill that kill.
Dude, I've never seen a crosshair fervor away from someone to get a kill.
I'm gonna hit the farthest away I've seen across there and I kill her for me.
Are you ready for it?
Okay, we don't have any damage here, I guess.
Um...
It's a tatse with a time of thank you for the two months. Thank you, thank you.
Bear in mind, I'll be honest, when looking at the veto, I thought this would be a f**k up as a f**k up at my hand.
The fatal, the fatal hadn't even touched him that point, I'm pretty sure.
He was just low anyway.
Going into Breeze, we haven't seen Navi play yet, and I believe so far, it's been their second ban.
Let's horrendous to be Navi at the moment.
They've been a nearer one like me.
It messed up quite a lot.
It used to be you.
Get him once and once.
What the?
a lot of tWitch
we're doing this thing again
it was a broadcast on tWitch
could be from now I mean warning signs earliest fanatic push up to four
assuming nothing crazy happens here with the pistols but that tour de force
still gives them a chance as you said
okay we'll stick with this in the macacha
I've got tWitch right now
that last round it does feel like you know they did so well to
struggling on each of them.
Look at the A site now, I mean, for Crash, I almost expect him to start backing off the screens, but instead,
he's stepping forward, he's looking for a fight, and he's got more of a fight than he wants it.
Oh no!
That is.
Yeah, that might be the screen going down.
I mean, he probably is going to get negative, it's not like...
Crazy guy.
That's the look on the other side of the map gone.
and actually Alphiette has managed to clear out here at the same time this is very quickly turned into a winnable position but Rook's impatiently waiting that operator picked up has cleared out Alphiette the back and forth ends with Navian in advantage
um jumpy thanks so much for the primes thanks for the aim man thank you for that
he did that like he's in a terrible spot I mean he was dude he also saw I mean he had so much that you would imagine it was going to bother him and I think there was a molly on primes or what
I think that opener was important, but we're just getting rid of Kayak early.
Hey chat, we're going to give him a solid round.
We're definitely not giving you a tube of chance.
I just tried that again at first.
Oh, that's a lucky shower.
Just called for the smoke in hand.
But yeah, a bit of a back and forth.
Even still, there's going to be the finances for at least a decent investment here.
Seems like Crashies might have a piece or two missing, going to be left on the
audience.
Two from each to come by next.
Four, two.
And he has clear of info over towards A. They can keep their stack over towards B.
They got nothing that can hit us over towards A.
The smoke, hold back, still keeps us out of duty.
Yeah, they've lost feelin' on that cross down on mid, the whole team's swingin' out.
Oh! What are they missing this time? That is a call to the top.
Kind of looked like he went for a nascope.
There was a quick scope, but...
I think the flashes are...
The only real hope here, but if they do get in, the pit comes out.
Oh, f**k their baby!
The active flash revoser, and then back edges unblinded by the time he makes it around the corner.
They were so ready for that sky pop flash. I think that is one of the worries well comes to that sky flash is
The big rounds forcing down to an eco from an echo going to get a pretty good half on the fence
I'm pretty sure every time you watch them they've had like a
Convincing attack to counter that flash a mile from then onwards what once they're gonna do run in try
And take the spark it uses pit probably not
That's just perfect plan
I think this is what we come to expect from you know one of the most experienced high jails in the league
It's a high ball.
It very much is.
And that has been leading since, I think, since day one.
Certainly since they won a 7 FC way back
and making those calls.
You see in that moment, we see those three players left
and go, OK, what do they have to entry?
That's already being called calm
and processed on the side of Fanatic.
These are their tools.
This is how we beat them.
And the rounds closed down with ease as a result.
5 to 2.
When you're looking at V right now, Tommy,
you've got to wonder, what are they missing?
And two rounds on the board?
There's plenty more time to play with.
Yeah, I think...
First, see, we've seen a lot of the sort of extremities being cleared out, like we saw here.
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
I think Fnatic could do one round.
Probably need to actually...
...peaking off those players back.
...leave for a little more and focus towards A.
They've had a good success at the beginning, right, defaults?
We got an incredibly fun matchup today.
Some of the highest rate of players in the tournament.
Hero has been...
And I keep on putting a deep smoke over towards David, I'll probably try and get more pressure once this goes.
It doesn't matter. That's how much damage he does every round. Yeah, if anything, that's more impressive with a larger sample size to draw from
Yeah, the guy currently leading the kill record tied as well
You have to say Zeus this is matched him in the same map as well the 33 kills
That wasn't a regulation though. That was in a considerable number of all the time
I think Europe would have been played if he was an undeciding of the agent in 2023
Yeah, it was the same map. I mean a little more than it was played
It was a good agent back then
Um, but honestly, some of the others were like really strong.
Like, Raze was really good back then.
2023 was the 12 second boom bottle, whatever it was as well, right?
That was nuts.
You may did more.
Jet was in a better spot.
Yeah, I mean honestly, Jaden, Jaden Raze were like really up there.
but it should have been used a little more than it was.
2023? Now I think the clone was a thing back then.
I think that was out in 2022 instead of the 5 steps.
Oh, he did good man, that did no damage to him.
Must have been tempted to pop the order as well, but did great to not do that.
not a great start I think we've had every every facet of Valorant gameplay
because because they don't have a yard he's really having a bad game yeah he was
the guy that left on the spawn he's alright yeah yeah which is Shao
as a result that he got yeah there's no real Shao at the run behind that was
that was his mistake it's all I know he's like wait it's not real to me as
I mean sky was so good as well that's the issue it's like can you play a
duelist that has flashed instead of sky like an actual broken character at the
time.
I'm trying brother! I'm trying to help!
I'm going to be honest with you, if the dog is clear of that corner, he'd have known Alpha was there because Alpha was in that corner.
I ain't just losing this mind.
I would love to now just take a time out.
I mean this is a bi-ron though.
It's okay, this is a big bi-ron.
It's like actually, I made a mistake.
I'll be honest, this was also one of the first.
They fall over towards middle wall.
Trying to take map control a little faster than this one.
this one. Still really no difference over towards A, I know they kind of de-followed towards A, but
the actual buy-round is still just chilling. Same thing, but now they could just make him short.
They have one person kind of holding this down on the smoke.
Oh, that was nice though, that was nice. Yeah, that was good.
Going towards the vents. They're gonna make some noise and a bit of a distraction
Shower is just a blast. In this instance, they're going to look down for Ruxen
He gets some damage done, but in the end, it's all gone wrong
But really there, you have to wonder what was Shower thinking?
Cool. But you're looking back.
I still look at that box, but it's not gonna crash you.
The kill him to crash you would be enough, but bear in mind, Crashies knows that.
So he doesn't fight. He just gets the Jiggle Peak, runs back all the way.
With 30 seconds left, both players are on opposite sides of the map.
I think they're literally just feeling it out, but I'm hoping that there's some space.
Oh, I thought there was a chance, because many players are going to make some pressure.
Again, you've got 15 seconds.
There's not much reason to go peeking.
Yeah, I do it with...
He does his mechanics quite good at shooting.
So, he's got the spike.
Hero's now going to have to save.
They might have to do a night time out.
Looking a little rough.
I mean this was Alpha being good as well but...
So also like knowing that someone used a razor from that corner and then getting rough.
Getting open from this is pretty bad.
in the middle of mid and got shot in the head and then they didn't really need to push behind you because they've got the pick
And the guys in the water fought vents for info don't need info because they got the info
You think best of five double map feeds also change now. I think it's the best
Best middle ground you can get
I don't think this is something that worries me that much because I've seen Chao play a lot
I've not seen him play like this a lot, but he just needs it
Why does that not work?
because it's just a bunch of the time it's a little shaky start but he can get there in the end and
Althea he doesn't need any sort of warmth at all nice shots
oh crispy socks around the pool it's a little bit lower by but
yeah i was telling me i was having a really rough game like it's really up there
sure yeah without a doubt and it's unless something drastic changes it looks like it's
gonna be eight two there's more every round that goes by i'm like well that's the last round
Yeah, I'm impressed with the testing of that spot.
When I take the stun to look good, I mean, I agree with that but they're all so clean,
I'm pretty slobbering.
Well, just as I comment about Hero not really being on board,
he comes in with a triple kill.
Takes over the round and, well, Navi are back on the table
once again.
They grabbed individually from him.
I think it's been so difficult for them to sort of
cause out crashes and the fact that he was able to clear
him and then put the pit down,
that's the turning point of the round.
That's what made it so much more difficult for Fanatic
to get back in.
Obviously, the other thing that has me a little worried
the fact that versus liquid and versus for a bit of a strange man yeah dude a lot of
the big names like if I was other regions watching this I would so so fine
so so so fine like I would only be scared of you be all the gentlemen
if I was to maintain a very good stuff but we'll shall be a repeat offender as
he moves out towards the inside it's all open it's been given up
Can now be found that Rooks had dropped in Crashies. That's about as good a start as you could hope for.
Yeah, he's been a menace on the A side. This time he avoided it. I think knowing that that show stopper was likely going to be coming in.
Now posted up in that...
I always underestimate Fnatic. Me, look how they're playing. I don't even look screened.
Still most of the utility available.
More Narvi to try and deny over the top.
I'll be able to sponsor the map behind him somehow!
He's almost doing tricks!
I'll talk with Xiao and then quickly find a couple back in return!
It's left all onto Rooksic!
Redemption?
He has to kick it off, but they're already beginning to talk about the treasure here that in the corner he needs to land the shot!
And he won't be able to!
That looked like a tough, tough retake for Fnatic, but...
I'll be honest, in the end they make it look kinda easy.
They do, yeah, it looked like a frag movie from Kai's perspective.
He was shooting bodies that had already been taken out by a teammate from Alfa.
this year
there we go
now really really nice stuff from the fact that we're gonna be here for this
it's it's really heartbreaking they kind of needed that seven five they want to be
able to bounce back we know
could have for both teams coming up sure
but if an addict got
this kind of play style locked out they're coming in swinging like this
the cash is well thirteen and five
the
that's the real thing
but where do you go now?
no control of the main virus
they look for the A site and I can't believe
Althea is going to walk through the pit
he is right behind him
he missed him by a pixel
by a second
oh boy
with that pick on the kayak
if Alpha gets this strike
on Dashao they're going to be stuck on site
he's low on HP
Dashao is looking completely the wrong way
you wouldn't expect anybody to be there that quickly because of it the
advantage swings back they are rough off the show with the tour to force
available spot low on HP we need to see something from FeeLoo in this round
they still don't nest have a nightmare yeah you really have a lot
immediate usage of utile to clear that close angle forcing rucksack back down to just two HP
feel it needs to land the shot he gets nothing it has to be a 2hp ace
very nice on this one even with like it will be nice three it will be so weird
because i mean kaiak and it's kaiak and alpha are making some incredible decisions but
they're also killing like multiple people so they're winning more rounds than they're losing
to doing a little bit of mad stuff so he probably is dead in the key
i don't think it's like that in practice as well but
The new iteration of Fnatic, I think people are actually sleeping on Vikage, our newest player.
I don't think he's getting rated as highly as he should.
So I kind of like that we're being kind of underrated right now.
And I think it's always fun to go into a season having to prove yourself and all that.
Like it's a new year.
What do you think about EDG using Fnatic?
I saw you were a Ravenclaw from winning.
I mean, no one in Japan understands Raven, so I'm super surprised.
The same old Fnatic.
Yeah, I think would definitely something we do it's good against me. Yeah, I definitely think we're gonna be like ramping up
It's good against the bike. I think teams at start hot kind of usually like drop off
But I think like historically with fanatic and especially boaster
He's really scaling up as the year goes and as the season goes
So I think we're just kind of used to that and I think it'll probably be the same as this here, so
The Odin. Yeah, we definitely got abused by it at champs
I think Brock used it to probably the highest potential has ever been used
It hasn't been nerfed yet, although I do think Riot has been making good changes with
the walls and stuff to not make them as wallbangable and stuff, but I definitely think there should
be either a price increase or something should be changed because I think it's been a strong
gun ever since the game's been out.
I was using it on Ascent back in the day, so yeah, it's just always been a strong
gun and I think it probably could use a nerf.
So Goal is going to kick off.
Historically, we haven't been that good in kick off actually.
I don't think we've ever, especially Fnatic, I don't think they've qualified
for the first LAN, and I've never qualified for the first LAN of the year.
They've never qualified for a kickoff event.
I've never qualified for a kickoff event.
So I think the simple answer is just qualifying for Chile, which is the first major LAN of the year.
And I think that's everyone's goal right now.
Your body knows a sense of victory.
Lock in.
I mean, may everyone go and buy it tonight.
You can't become a knockout.
Step into your zone designed to win.
I mean listen I get that he's salty from what happened at champs, but the Odin needs a nerf right calm down crashes
All right, slow your horses nine to three
I think the heavy-root-tick style became more viable after we took him out.
And Justin, yeah, honestly, I'm not sure.
They use so much they don't have stuff to after-blown.
Maybe. I mean, we were in a pretty heavy...
Before the initiator changes, basically if he got over towards site, you were going to win.
Like the teams that were fighting to stop the blonde for winning.
So, maybe.
It's not entirely sure, man. It's good to keep an eye on that though.
Flash went over towards A, kinda looks like it didn't hit anyone. You had to imagine.
He's got a fake hit over towards B, you're at TP. Dude, they might go so late that this guy can't you're at TP, right?
Cool.
B two sets of steps third with the yoru
And then they freeze again and now be here sat back
I mean at this point you've got rook six just holding with the headhunter on a his trap holding heaven
So there's no need to move all of this control given by this one character means you've got two players B
You know too many socialism
Yeah, that should make the cool pretty easy
Remember 40 seconds on the clock and you're about to basically spawn no rotates from Na'vi
Yeah, I feel like
Race shows was one of my favourites
I feel like that's why Fnatic were playing so deep, but instead throwing that in
Steps being
Damn, look at both of them
Look at both of them go
Smoke over towards heaven, they fake to be and then they have a backup where they use the smoke to try and lack all the way to spawn
And you can hit three of them
Boster mate
This was cool
Maybe I'm wrong maybe he walked but I could have sworn he made steps heaven odd B
No, no, he walked the whole time. This is a really good
Because if he if he just walked it fair enough, but also kind of not me honestly
It also works really well because they got hit by the sky over towards here, right?
So in theory the Rotik should be going over towards here, they should have three.
So he's thinking that there might be the nearest pass from Rotik, Rotik might be this guy,
they're playing two sites, they kind of know they're playing close sites because of the
the clone that you already brought in. That is a lovely pistol to launch. One of my favourite
CCs for now.
The trigger discipline as well there is awesome.
shift walk events on you they also should you could say well but if they
went to heaven we would have got them no you wouldn't you didn't they're crazy
strategy who needs men it's funny as all because angel is very good like even
in this I would say that maybe the first time we saw them they had a bit of
a bad read on the meta and then now this slowly it's pretty rapid to be
honest they're going a lot faster start using a little bit of double
He's very fast. Normally he's on top of the meta, to be honest, but even when he's behind it, which is a good example.
He's very fast to catch up.
We were also getting wrecked and a lot of people were using fast set strats.
He started using set strats again.
He is 14 rounds in.
is on the 314 watch is on the 314 he's a bit easy one he's one of 13 okay there's
room there's a real possibility and actually already okay let's be serious
about this there's damage coming in it's a 3D
I mean that she's a winner
take the foot off the gas they could let that be back in nice shot by
maybe a little bit
put a bit more confidence into the fanatic side hero of top classic in
64 HP to 1v3. I think it's safe to say he's not getting away with much
And so 11 on the board for fanatic
Yeah, you got a ninja there would have been crazy, but yeah 11 to 3 and for now be at the moment
Oh, there's not a lot of hope. There really isn't like this being their math thing
This also being a map that coming in you highlighted before we start
Yeah, no, I mean even we had to look at like, how did Fanatic do on Split, like was this
a good choice because I thought they looked pretty nice on Split when I'd seen them, so
is it crushable, my pick?
Yeah, we at least alluded to it before, I didn't think it was like, yeah, the best.
I didn't think it would be this bad, but this is what we're saying as well, right
It kind of leads into this a little more fast set strats and like they make a lot of sense for flashing closed
We've got fade-eye for this as well
So you've got the Teva, the land outside the smoke, see if it hits anyone as well
Double TP over towards here
And they like mixing it up as well. They had different variations
Yeah, I mean the faster you end it man, the more you stay
play all the best of my possible
they're obviously played to the best of
fires but right now they're back in their
mind to come back to speedrun into the
finish but they did well there that has
felt like they lost around the noggin
fast anymore yeah maybe yes especially
Wouldn't be your bus go there could be a bit better
They have a nice yoru flash lineup for this roster for this xx made it
You could do the one off the wall as well
Silver I like cinematic doing this stuff
And I'm excited to see how he can go into this roster.
That round there from him, perhaps a confidence builder.
And for Navi genuinely setting the goalposts, you've probably lost this map.
It's a long way back.
But every single round you get is a reminder that the first half was just a blip on the radar.
Yeah, for sure.
I think especially going into Breeze, the good thing they have is that
Fnatic don't have any data, don't have anything they can look at,
because you haven't played it yet.
Wow, I think the last time they will have played it, the roster probably looked quite different, but not a certainty.
Already getting the opener. This is also the half where you kind of expect Bruxik to have his, his impact.
Being able to have that defensive side operator, aggressive positioning, being taken, a lurk left in backhash to try and catch any rotators, but Fnatic always happy to sort of run that call.
I'll wait till the time to get on this one.
What are we doing? Just waiting for the fade-eye.
Are they gonna give him the spike again?
And they do this weird one where they give him the spike and then he just teepies over towards site and then they plant and then everyone just holds his heaven.
What are we doing?
18 seconds on this.
Spikes still in heaven. 15 seconds on this.
10 seconds. My spike is still...
That's mad how they're calm now with this.
Oh.
Bumped.
Maybe Fody's never going to swing out and try and get the planner.
Maybe the comms are hectic.
Like he's been doing that quite a lot. We know the fanatic like to play slow
We know that a lot of the time you're gonna have these very very late hits
So holding the flash to check if there's still someone within the side of the fanatic ground. Yeah, it really was
Wait for them to make a mistake and I feel I always feel bad
You know when they take heaven and do this kind of stuff. I always feel so about the kayak
The whole thing is like we take heaven
UTP here will kill the reaction. Don't worry about it. Like we'll trade you
and my guy has to fight a war on his arm back a site
okay force fanatic down to an eco
back to mid, back to A, we're gonna take advantage of...
ah, the line day
yeah, they tried to dodge it a little
nice shot
oh, that's really questionable
obviously a nice shot but
time we're seeing Navi not just chain one round together. I mean it's a really short, maybe I was too fast at playing her.
Got that third down on the back of it, momentum really swapping over. Isn't that our favourite?
The most important thing for me is that we're seeing the discipline, we're not seeing those overpeaks anymore, we're not seeing massive gaps being left on the defensive side.
It genuinely just looks like Navi started playing the game. Before they were scattered, they were individuals. I genuinely think in that first defensive round, they had less synergy than most ranked solo queue games.
What do you think Kaiak is the best aimer and bottom right now?
I mean, I think it's too hard to say. It's too many good aimers in this game.
He's up there? Yeah, he's up there.
For me, for me, he's pretty good. This is the thing.
For me, it's kind of...
I'm not up to that as well.
just for whatever reason getting a little lost in the sauce I see another two
maps of that from him I'll be genuine I think even we've been able to put up
some pretty decent I'm guessing today but I see things have gone wrong but I
think there's been more of a focus needed especially on their attack side
don't you give me a tech pause right now because of that things
individually have gone as we were doing so good let's see
This is the moment Fnatic feel the need to put the brakes on, take themselves a moment
to try and get themselves back because three rounds in a row and even having that advantage
in their bonus round obviously weaker weapons but still had an opportunity and Navi have
definitely looked a lot stronger on this defensive side and also as I said when you look back
to their game versus Heretic they had a 9-3 defensive half so it's not like this
is completely out of the realms of possibility but it would be quite disappointing especially
with fanatic slowly building up all of those old so they already have themselves
the show's up a night for every other all is one or two orbs away so you kind of
sit there and go okay you should be able to cheese around here and there's
going on boys if you get to charge a mouse again she's back Lawrence in the
building the tech falls up on the screen and she looks down to the side
out and I could explain things. That could be why it is nice out here.
I'm on my mom's side down the whole time.
I thought I was out here crossing it.
I'm just hearing it.
The reality is at this point, it's probably too far down.
For Navi, they're on a good side.
They can't make the deal of a lifetime.
Honestly, they're probably reaching out to America as we speak as well.
It's been mad over there.
You've just got three in a row. It needs to be a next to flawless research from now.
from them one round is the only margin for error and even then that will rob you of
Victory here in regulation. So it does feel like it's too far gone
But you know if you can still manage to bring that little bit of speed back into the game
It'll win into your sales then it's it's gonna be very easy to look back at that last half and go
Oh, yeah, we made a lot of mistakes. That's why we lost and we cannot make those mistakes in the future. So
future being grease. Yeah, I think as well. This is another good display coming out from
that cash. I think especially on the defensive side setups, because like a lot of the times
when I see a new player come in, I expect on the attack, it's like, yeah, you're going
to follow what the IGL's plan is, and you're just going to go along with like, okay, I've
been told to watch this angle, then I'll go here. And it's like, I feel like on the
defense, it's more about like the crossfire he set up with Boaster earlier in the game.
Like those are all about just you having the right protocols in place and you
what to do in those moments but the fact he's 19 and 9 I think tells the story
itself like he's been having a great game seems like he fits wonderfully
change the shirt guys come on now
look at what's going on the more reps he gets the better like I do think they're
one of the teams that truly does benefit not just going through that
obviously there's no doubt in my mind that there was like anywhere they went
yeah let's not win then go down I don't think any coach in their right
line would ever do that but to do getting more accustomed to those
things and the more and more we've seen them play having that crazy two map ulti
game with foot it's like you get through stuff like that and then you come
into the next matches and he's looking better and better even in the game I
think it was like Haven where they got battered he was their best player like
he aced in one of the rounds I think that was versus BBL right?
I could try again Magnet
almost
Definitely looking like a fantastic pickup right now, but the question is so there was a
tactical time-up before this
so
You would imagine we're gonna see something that makes a lot of sense for these two
And they combo insanely well fade or hit someone prowler, you know, they are getting you killed the razor
They're gonna be low as all
Okay, that's nice info.
You now know that A is pretty weak if they want to hit it.
Okay, if they do this they kind of know they're going into three.
So I'm just going to back off A again and they steal some info but instead he sticks
on that A main angle.
You got to give Rockstick a bit of props for taking the shot and not being scared
the oldest ground and not the POA. They clear over towards middle as well. They hit one
close A, they had them clear middle. They could literally be 4 on B.
That's a good nade.
Oh that's a good nade as well. Socialbore kind of just stole them all.
just murdered everybody in front of his teammates yeah I mean this is this let's
be honest this is one of the worst rounds we've seen from buster really this
was bad cool man that's something that rarely gets said to be honest
a little rough round from him so it was like they had an original plan it might
have been the original plan the coaches fought off and then he felt like he
had to go and do it even though everything went wrong
That's the only way I'll shoot him, because it was pretty bad.
Oh.
Yeah, a lot of this was because Rocksick didn't TP away.
I'm pretty sure they fought that he didn't.
When we used to speak about chambers, it was like the one that made the difference with
the chambers is like two things.
If you could hit every shot, there was like a big one obviously.
But also like if you could hold onto your TP for as long as possible to make sure they
had to use much detail.
And this was a prime example of the last time.
the amount of info that they are getting
and the timing, like it's like he knows
like social was flashed as always going
just as they take the space
like it's not like he's just throwing them
in at the beginning of every round
or like even at the same timing
it just seems like he's waiting until the moment where he goes
okay we don't have info that I'm going to use it
and it was the same in the last round
catching everybody outside B
then doing the work in C
Whoa what is that movement here?
That's not pretty
He boasts his movement here
I can't say it
especially a wrist like that you're up against pistols you push mid and now he's only given
a...
He's going to get sick timing.
Alpha, yeah.
What could go wrong?
I mean, unless Alpha drops out to someone else there shouldn't be any danger here.
Let's see if that ends up being the real story of the game.
The wolf going down gives Rooksick the angle and the Alpha's going to be dropped
but Kayak manages to slip through and make it to the site so shuffles, catches,
crashes the good
This is
To be studied
Yeah, no, this is defensive off really is looking stellar and even with like some
I'm looking at his movement. He had to hit that second shot. So once he missed that second shot, what's his movement actually like?
Yeah, I mean you would. You would be for sure.
We've got a backup judge for the hole.
These are the enemy core of the Torb of the Middle, and he's going to play in front of
both of their smokes.
I mean, I'll be doing a good job of making sure that this smoke isn't getting any value
that he's playing in front of it.
It's an aggressive stance.
I like this one though, more than I like FeeLoo out in the open against pistols.
But you have more faith in Rooksicking in the shot with the Torb of the Middle.
of the shot. It's more that he can get out of there.
Oh, he did miss!
He misses, but he gets out.
Don't punish for Fnatic there.
So now they kind of know that they
haven't been creating pressure with their smoke
over towards middle.
And they're just happy that it should
because they pushed him off.
Just a little bit later, that Tour de Force
is going to be a constant threat in this round,
at least for now.
And the Mokaiak should be getting through.
Three over towards side again.
I haven't seen it.
One.
What's about to say that Crashy says
starting on the other end.
Wow.
Look at him.
It's going to be outbanned.
Dude, I'm in Czech site, yeah.
Not considering site.
Legit, not even considering site.
Bay-Dai goes in and shows he's here.
Cool.
on the site, boots on the ground and a big swing from Hedges
Oh, mate, it was on his head. It was on his head. That second shot was fast
That second shot was fast
The nice try is a really nice try
Did it hit
Honestly, not even half a second, I think you get that
The crosshairs looked on
It's a fast upshot from Hedges
Especially at the amount of time that was left
It's risky but necessary trade look at this right at the last 10 seconds left
Scary one forcing down back to an eco again
Kind of like
They put their smoke another keep doing this smoke over to the house. Yeah, but they're gonna
Put more emphasis on pushing them off of it towards made earlier. Yeah
It's nice to watch Navi at the moment. They're kind of everywhere. They know they're gonna try and do the server towards Middles
They're more aggro on the sides of the chambers everywhere at the moment
They don't know where the cash is. Yeah, I shot on another connection yet still rucksack
Oh, yeah, he's still running around the whole map to get a shot
Just patty that's good
Okay, nice shots for back edge. Maybe there is a little bit to this. I'll fear it won't be to 30 seconds
I had a gun and a roughly where he is. They're definitely gonna know where he is now
This crossfire should be one that's difficult to break down maybe has a chance versus felu
But he should be tucked into the angle just waiting for the swing on to here or the second that swing comes through
It's even expected
It's a nice game plan at the moment. I think I think it's change of this
I mean this squad was so
Might be better on the signs
You got it, Malpho
The fact that they were...
Well, it was 11-3, right?
I- I- That feels surreal
11-3, thank you, Tom
Thought it was an easier way to do that
If just count the bottom ones
But, uh, uh
Cause I don't think they moved from 11
It's alright, we got time
I saw you, I saw you panel on
But yeah, the fact is
For now, to- to not close this game out
It is a heartbreak to have not already closed it out like at this point even if now we lose this
I mean the conversation I was putting out there was sort of aimed at a fanatic end of 13 aiding it now
We will go well guys. We did suck like an unbelievable amount in that first half. It's fine
We would have won that if you play it right now. We will win. Yeah, but
Yeah, they play right now they will win this is this is remarkable
So they're gonna try a simple B here, Astro to get into site, 5-4 ult to win the Aston
Pawn.
Not the mind.
How difficult is it for the coaches to put together a Navi, I mean, easy bro.
They would have written it down to happen two rounds.
They should know that their smoke is not getting any value over towards an underdog.
They should know that they haven't got middle in the last three rounds as well.
Yeah, this is nice from Fnatic though. They're expecting something aggro they hope for a lot of it.
It's also not a bad round from Navi, right?
Every single time, I mean, their whole game plan has been about the Viper smoke over towards
middle, really.
They tried to prioritise having the chamber over towards her because there's nothing
blocking this.
Navi is so low walking in there.
Full incredible shot.
But the double swing it's too much. That is just pure mechanics man. It's not
Send them towards the A site where they'll look for the space the problem is what's waiting there
They have got the wall to cross at least but
Brooks is given a chance here. Yeah, get crack was on the other side of the map and when kayak had the
The spike I was thinking maybe they're gonna switch you up and I'm looking at the late light coming through
Okay, so one person fake over towards A, walking over towards B, Spike is just gonna get there.
Astralt maybe to secure that they can't spam the plant? No, they're doing it to sell the A fake, oh my god.
It's a 15 second fake with an Astralt, there's no other team that you would see this from.
Madness.
You can get it not only a lot of control deep into words. They're spawn up into heaven
That's so
Difficult for Navi
We said that the comeback needed to be next to flawless. They could lose one round
Keep themselves in it. Well this well very well may be the round
The game of the wall of space. It's like they just want to try and play up. I'm here
She doesn't get it all into this one
It's not a good plan.
Boaster, hoping the smoke would go down before let's me get behind him.
Smoke goes down.
Okay, it's pretty much in Boaster in the end.
Problem is...
Okay, I'm in a good time on this.
Dude, crazy round.
It's such a crazy, crazy round.
Boaster did a really good job as well.
Over towards here, he managed to shoot the extra seeker that would have revealed
the guy going over towards B.
And then the one that they let through spotted the guy over towards Heaven.
So they didn't get any of that extra info over towards mid and D, I guess.
15 second take with Anastro what was cracking me up.
Can't see those at all.
I hope Splatoon never leaves the map or mine. It's such a good map.
a lot to do and it was just too much it's not great to close this out
is lucky to be alive in a bounce back from that previous I love this from
rucksack keeping the confidence in play shouts holding deep B main control
nothing on a look how passive sociable is there but it's that mid control that
could give Navi a leg up, yeah you can see them feeling out of the mouth, our boasters walked into
this angle before and survived by a hair's whip, you'd expect that something's gonna have to go
through to clear this, now they've already used one prowler, see we're really gonna jiggle this
Again, I wouldn't fair on this. There you go.
That was a good tanger from them.
Again, he looks very good at the moment on the chamber,
making sure he gets max value out of his TP.
So important in this metro as well.
He's been important in all of the metro.
Making sure they have the information
and with how much middle control is still coming
in with all of them, they could quite easily
have a couple of players here in a matter of seconds.
Thirty seconds left.
Thirty seconds are still on spawn.
Yeah, again, Navi's trying to make sure the character has them towards A-Heaven.
Spotting one has kept four players here.
Good luck to Shao.
He's been having a rough game, man. He needs to save on here.
The hell's happening in the middle?
Yeah, skips the blonde off to the right.
He's still alive!
Oh, this was smart from him, man. They both couldn't hear, so it wanted to take a lot of space,
was ready for their reaction. Ah, dude, it crashes. Oh, man, this is a fun map, though.
I'm not saying it was the most high level, but it was very, very fun. The second half was
really good because Bost's calling was great and Nali's game time was like pretty good against the
smoke. It really peaked on the second half. I would say it was like pretty sloppy, fast half
but then the second half is like pretty high level. Like a weird mix.
I don't know. I have no clue to be honest. We just like to get in combat but yeah we actually
close the game so. Yay about time but now I'm gonna ask you about the Viper because it's looking
better and better. About time he's crazy. How do you make sure that you continuously improve so
comfortably in a competitive environment? Yeah so it's a new role Viper it's actually a hard role
and I actually have the best agent around me, Jake is helping me a lot some stuff etc
and I have good coaches staff also he's working behind me and yeah that's it.
Alright, well, thank you so much and you're making it happen
I'm gonna let you go because I know you guys have another map to go
And we'll be back after the break with the second map of the series
I have no damn idea what caused the other one
Soldier boy, now hear me roll
Watch me crank and rush me go
Yeah, I didn't know he's just about soldier boy
You can see Rockstar
That one, hey, hey, I wanna be a Rockstar
Sorry my post was a little not nickel bag
Not nickel bag, oh what?
Oh, tell me what you want
I'm gonna trade this life
For fortune fame
I'll even cut my hair, change my name
Cause we all just wanna be big rock stars
Bro, why is it just one minute singing?
Oh, that's a banging song actually, now that I think about it
Some additional karaoke on the side
your body
your body and see a yeah that's why i'm annoyed
sees when mine in copyright again for your ignite is one
and
okay we're back in a little bit we've got breeze coming up this was not these maps so
they're gonna have to perform
red bull gives you wings
Anatic picking Breeze. I can't even remember their Breeze
Yeah, I can remember their Breeze. Pact just pushes middle of everyone
They got no value off the stage. Yeah, yeah, okay, right. I'll be back in a little bit. I
Didn't even my change comp to be honest
I'd be tempted
I'm not sure if I'm just a fool or something
but you at high
Broken out
Because what's the matter
is here on the edge
I'm a survivor
I'm never afraid
We are sacrifice
But I'm beautiful
Get on with
Take this one super fire
Right here
My dead body
But I'm too ready to shine
I'm not shy until I'm serious, I'm just a girl
Baby, it's my superpower
I'm a woman
I'm not used to what you're saying
Tough guy, I'm tired of running away
Now I'm a cautious gunfighter, body blade
If you're got the shame, you got just a warm-up for your fate
This shiver and your bandit, but I'm in a rampage
This is not a guy that you can't change
Looking up to 20, you can't able to paint every champion in the champion
Oh, yeah, I'm hurt, what's the mind to lose?
Yeah, all of you, yeah, let me shake it off for a fight
If I never win, I'll never fight
Win, I'll sacrifice, I'll do the fight
Now I work, paint this my super power
Can I get my head up high?
I might do it in a shine
Can I swim back down the slide?
Baby, it's my superpower
I'm gonna swim back down the slide
This world never saw me coming
I keep down every door they lock
Low rules, low rules
Who we guys can judge me?
Who's girls can judge me?
If I never win, I'm never fine
I'm second-fine, I'm square, I'm purified
They're my super power
They're the way to shine
Can I see them down, down, down?
Baby, it's my superpower
Can I get more Ruxik on Chamber please?
I'm working on it.
It needs some work to be done, it needs to be convinced.
So, hopefully yes.
Alright Mini, you've been hammering on about us Chamber.
You got the Chamber, you want more Chamber?
Okay, this is the greed that they talk about.
Like I said, I think Spick isn't even one of his best maps,
and he's still popped off.
So like on a map like breeze like yeah
Like Angel as well like I agree with Angel it's so weird
He wants more chamber
I want more chamber it feels a bit strange
That is crazy to be fair for me
I think yeah that comeback the Navi were able to have I think a big part of it
Fake but I think bold picking split into fanatic first Star Wars
Which we kind of touched on but I think the operator on Rick's sake was great
Obviously the operator on the other side when we think about kayak was also great
So yeah, I think for me those were kind of like the big difference. Yeah, I think it's really important as well
just the fact that
Like the operator has been playing such a huge role in a lot of these maps and it's something we highlighted like last week
We're like, oh the meta changes. Can the teams capitalize off of it? I mean at this point
Are you guys convinced that they can't I mean yeah
I mean I think I was one of the guys basically said the operator is gonna be really good in this matter
If you don't have as much utility to work with I think it's well in this matchup specifically Navi's composition didn't have as
as many tools to deal with kayaks operator
So I do think that this was maybe part of the game plan from the fanatic coming into it
Obviously on the other side like just has to buy one yet because he chamber essentially
But yeah, I think they made a lot of sense from for Nike here
Like what what what can that attack side composition do to get rid of the chamber not very much as the answer?
They don't have astra dissipates. They got a chamber who has to come that's in so it kind of did a really good job
This series setting the term very early on
But yeah, and I had to head
287 ACM if I got 280 ACM 287 ACS and lost the game, I'd be
Yeah, not human but I mean it happens, but I think it's a great testaments to
Rocksick individually and just the impact that he can have on these games and how
Important those are as well
I think we also have to hear from the fanatic camp of things because this was looking a little bit of a whoa
So well, let's check in with their coach profession as well
Last time you played Breeze, you had trouble on the attack side with the Sage cock. Can we expect a change in approach today?
In short? Yes, that's it. You'll have to wait until the second map to find out.
We don't want to wait until the second map. We want it now. But on to your note, that's good to hear or exciting to hear that we are going to see some changes on this Breeze composition because that's what they played against VBL if I remember correctly and it did not go in their favor.
Yeah, well that's why we kind of like brought up the attack side because it was the attack that they ended up struggling on
And I think for us we're looking at that sage that they played previously to see if Alphair is still gonna be playing that age
And I think that's the biggest, you know one that we have question marks around
Just climb on chamber or jet. I want to see Alpha on chamber or jet and keep it simple
You should have asked that confession question to Milan and be like hey, can we get more chamber?
That's true, yeah, you actually just had the same question
We've been quite different both characters, because you're a chamber enthusiast, but I'm really looking forward to see the changes that we're going to be seeing from the side of Fnatic, or if we're literally just getting teens and it's not going to happen, we'll get to that when we get any agents.
But from Navi's side of things then, what are we expecting? I mean the chamber here is looking great.
Yeah, well that's the thing, like we've not seen a breeze come out from Navi just yet, so we could just like sit here and theorycraft and speculate.
Um, but why would we need to do that when agents like this right there and ready for us?
We're actually going to be seeing Rooksik play the Viper, which honestly, I'm not mad about Mini.
I don't know how you feel about it.
No, it's good fight, but the thing that strikes me here is so shabby on Yoru.
Yeah, they're on the stage.
Yeah, like that's the strange thing here, when you've got Rooksik and Hero, Hero on
so far as well, like, something goes a little bit off with the role here.
We expect Hero and Rooksik, and those are the players that we keep talking about,
and they've been kind of put on that more reserved slot into this composition.
and then on the other side, because he's jet.
I don't know enough about this guy.
You sound very happy.
Why are you excited?
Uh, why is that?
Okay, I mean, Alpha.
Oh, he's played loads of jet.
I don't know about that.
Viper is kind of playing into the whole, like,
after being on this more reserved,
and no under.
Sorry, don't think I'm from jet.
Yeah, hi.
I'm not a kid.
I'm a jet.
We use it.
I mean,
Oh, man.
Do you want to talk about it, Mini?
I don't know.
Oh, nice.
I don't know.
He's not a player that I consider
No, I think this is fine. He has played Jett in the past, like in fact, like his Challenger days he was playing.
So two years ago.
Yeah, I mean, before he joined Jett for me.
On a team with Alphier and Alphier has to play Viper, Alphier's human right now. He's like a confident Viper.
Maybe you can ask that.
We've got two other Jodas in my team, and I thought that Viper...
They just tend to lose when he plays Jola.
Asked if I will be. He won't be happy.
There we go, that's one of the questions that we'll discuss later.
My eyes are on because this game is unsociable, honestly, because they're taking up slots here for what could be other players in the team.
Alright, well I guess we're going to have to wait and see how this competition is going to play out.
But at least, you know, Fanatic's coach keeping his promise.
It is going to be a little different, a little surprising, no sage here, but we're ready to head into our second map of the series.
Breeze coming up next with Wichita.
Thank you very much. Yes a second map, but do we get a third fanatic winning out the first pick?
It's it's a bad sign Tom after we got out of the first half, but now be had a hell of a resurgence
Do you think they have what it takes to beat fanatic here on breeze?
So we guys haven't too busy being backed by it, but like with mini what mini was saying?
I like when you have Alphia who like say for example
We saw him on play jet on a base that times and was utterly insane on jet
is also turkey so it's just like he is just good at jet naturally he was born good at jet yeah and then
that cat who just played a great viper really nice viper enjoyed the viper a lot
he's played permajus yeah i mean dude i i looked at this i looked at these stats
I think they definitely need to make a change is three. Okay, the loud let's break it down a little bit
between Pankada, their coach, and Kazin.
We've got three people that don't know how to use an initiator.
Or you've got one person who's leading everything that doesn't know how to use an initiator.
So it could be one person's fault.
And they believe it's Pankada.
So let's find out.
If it looks just as bad, we know it's one of the other two.
You would imagine the coach if it's not the IGL.
That social media deserves to be blamed for that video.
I mean what normally happens is people try and like like the T1 video the T1 documentary
It was all
That's this kind of call, but it's all trying to spin
So we're trying to spin a narrative
But that very well could be it.
You know, for Fnatic right now as well, Dota,
this is the...
It didn't actually happen in the end.
They come back on Split.
They didn't get Fnatic, but they were bloody close to it.
Now, is it coaching you, too?
Like I said, man, we've got three potential people
that are in the problem.
We're gonna reduce that by one and find out.
That we see stepping onto the stage here,
because they looked a little bit confused
and confounded.
Whoever's in control doesn't know
what they're doing, straight up.
this might be a right step
I honestly have no idea
Mavi on defense for Nadecon attack
Ma Swim for Navey, avoids a go down to the lower bracket
and Nadec changing up their comp for Vecash
and Jett
it does the drone check this corner from mid that's pretty good
and they do not know not an eye cast in his direction. They baited by shooting it and then they didn't check his corner.
An hero eventually removed from the round but his impact, oh it's not going anywhere.
Fanatic two men behind and no ground really to speak of, traded out for those losses.
This one's going to be a difficult fight back, an opportunity but sociable not going to overplay
his hand especially when they've got Rooksick locked in on the other side of the map although
he's got to walk abouts again an opportunity but the shot's just not connecting for either
of Brashy's 35 seconds up and coming on the clock, a full retreat, giving time for
Oh, okay, they should know there's a Viper somewhere, so throw him out there.
Pretty good from both though, last seen over towards door, does this guy consider aiming
as a dead brain?
Very, very nice on this one.
I mean, Novi did good, right?
Shooting the drone over towards here so he can't check the one spot.
One spot kills three.
hero that push up into elbow play to perfection
very nice
fantastic start
this is the duo we talked about with
navi
this rucksack and hero duo has become one of the best we have in EMEA
as you can see that was quite a while ago
643 days
We're going to use 643 days to go to
Probably come to about our
Well for that it doesn't look like they to take this one all down to the pistols
That back exploration from them jobs
Yeah, they always coming someone out. That's a decent bit of damage done, but
No weapons on the floor for now be just yet
And even if there was one as long as she has close enough by to pick it up
Although he is on the B site
The potential for some damage.
Ah.
I'm gonna attack you, dog. Very nice stuff.
Now I'm being with an inch.
Yeah, I'm gonna revive that's it.
And in the next one, the game really begins.
Rifle's out for fanatic.
The thing is though with so many people surviving,
Todd, now you're gonna have no issue.
In terms of, uh, investments.
What do you think about here at Hot Wheels and Niko's?
Um, I would only do it if I have,
like a couple of demos,
a couple of demos and I'm a hundred percent sure. Like four and buying my armors.
We never really worked.
You gotta have the inflow.
There's this bounce to the back.
Oh, bounce close. He can go faster.
of the
fact
Oh, great. It's hard to watch to watch like that. I've heard your eyes. Oh goodness.
Most of it's there in the end. A very valuable pick for Fnatic. Remember, this is a round they
come into with no super advantage is stacked up in their favor. Navi have so many weaknesses
and despite damage on DeFilo, they're still in a four versus three. Fnatic are completely
spread out. The other problem is that they got the info on a player close on a
playing on that corner on the left not the one that showers on the drone didn't
see him and the judge sitting in that corner now strikes the element of
surprise very nice pistol into a bonus you gotta say that a lot of them alive on this
once their money gets good couple of gun upgrades as well not looking quite as
good at least they didn't look very convincing from the matrix
especially when you are on the map and girls picked up
but this is sort of the difference I feel like although
Alain works in slightly more aggressive roles you put him on a bike
he has his utility around him and he just plays as comfortably still takes those same risks but
yeah honestly just I'm not entirely sure whether I'm in front
it might be just it might be because of my career it might be because of
easier to call
for a fanatic of course
this was the half versus bbl that they severely struggled on that
hi i guess
gets away with that one as well
um the micro things is one of the better smokes that people do
right edge of the smoke means that when you pop it up you could
sneak in but it's the rest of the players that have the rifles and in fact
there's already a pincer coming in on the mid
Oh, careful.
Well, the spike's still inside main, but they're looking for that fight.
Drawing eyes, works it down, means they're rotating in.
Crossing by this angle, it shouts currently on.
Boaster lurks and waits, shot landing from afar, puts him to a sliver of health.
And that should be an easy cleanup for Boaster.
Filu the last man standing, he's being detected, he's being hunted.
Yeah, a lot of guns came on this one as well.
Well, maybe one of those, where everyone gets a lot of money, especially if you can kill...
Especially if you can kill this guy with pizza surviving.
out from Bec as sure. Maybe a part of that attack side is going to involve him having that jet operator.
Maybe that's the same on the defense as well. Freeing up kayak to be a little bit more aggressive.
Maybe drops as well.
Oh, at least.
Very aggressive.
Oh, at least.
He's gone out from Velo and it's a one-for-one trade.
Now he goes to spike.
Do they keep pushing on that though? I mean look at the position Rooksic's gone for.
You've got social posts and a good operator in him.
though is it like yeah fighting that window it's not a great spot I think he was just going there
for a moment because the angle is being held by sociable so he clears that if someone's in the
window they should peek soon they don't so he goes back but now sociable is the one that has to
hold that control he's already sent his decoy out and it was broken now he goes walking forward
they don't expect that then it's like the second you didn't push back the space a lot of the
time from sociable but that's exactly why it works yeah we saw it in the last map with
The sky flashes he's very good with timing and you see it again
To repeat looking for a lot of confidence on that one
more than he can chew
Not sure about that
I mean, we're a little greedy, but we got a lot from it
It looked close
It was very very close
I think I can pretty much disgamble the sights there
I would see him do this many a time
A rotation already in from Rooksic, but he is some more isolated
I don't want to get the game away, doesn't want to give
the
It's a great reposition from him as well, dude
It's a 2v4 at its peak. They got a little aggro
for a greedy play
What away from Navi it'd been a five-to-hand nothing. Yeah
Definitely could have been
Really the ball in their court to make a move like angels gonna cool it down
Backside
a good flash to make that a little bit easier and hero core
Yeah, you can just get involved, man
The good start with the bonus, the upgrades, and now the money's in the bin
Too many mistakes
Can't snowboard when you do that
We're actually complimenting them for how good they were at snowboarding at the beginning of kickoff
This one isn't the best example
like you have these slow almost captivating rounds for fanatic that can
cause them issues at times but when they fast banana crowned you had to
unfriend these in a little nicer to watch them
well with the Hunters Fury to clear out Rooksic that B site looks a lot
friendlier
you know for now V the thing that's surprising is the fact that there were
three players so close by to this B site like you had two that were just
Just re-clearing the window as the first wall went up and as the utility came through,
Fielu makes the excise to the trials.
I read it twice and I still don't get it.
But thank you so much, Augusta.
This is the problem like having
Thinking about that execute. It's a mean thing. Oh, yeah, that's
I don't get it having three players ready to agree. Yeah, that's a really twice. I was like, what am I missing?
It was yeah, there were more defenders there
But there were more bodies when the exec was done by the pro players rather to dodge server or even your ranked games
He needs are doing it better. The servers that are doing the alts are way better
I
Imagine the servers that you play against in your ranked games are doing it like close range
me I could blind fold bacon and he could dodge that like long range when you're up
against a good a good sova
dodging it I promise you
sort of stop a lot of what this defensive side wants to do like you've got
yourself a neon yoru the expectation is you're gonna have aggression you're
gonna consistently try and push and pressure the map and I think in some
the earlier rounds. Fnatic fell victim to that. But as they go along they've been back to
a banter and catching some of these riskier positions like forcing players out.
Thing is the rotation as you said is coming in. Get some numbers there. In some shots.
Rostus giving it for people peeking and he's jumping.
Oh it's a rough one to Rizz. They gave him a lot of guns. Alpha can definitely win this.
He would like to get a kill full back in the air.
Yeah, I think my understanding is working if he doesn't at all.
I can't get one.
You're lucky. Crap, he's made.
Na'Vi can just run the numbers game
Crashies they know they know roughly where alpha is gonna be coming from
And he's already gonna be cleared out by Ruxik. It leaves just once
Okay, very nice of Na'Vi just all in the right area maybe a little too confident in Fnatic in terms of what I'm seeing poster especially though
I do have bad timing on it though
I think one of the players was like 1HP and the FeeLoo ended up killing, but very good round from him and then FeeLoo stepping up with a rifle as well.
But it was just that, this is kind of what we wanted to see from this guy.
12 and 3 right now.
But it was the only rifle they had.
For the Viper, I mean it's for Split end.
But again, the fact that the only rifle they had is on ground.
Yeah, I do think that.
They have, I mean, Fnatic have set rounds, but it's not like, it's not like the same as what NRG do, NRG do, like, breed barrier set rounds.
Genetic is more just like, old way, give map control than set exit.
And I do think, like, more set barrier to straight fast rounds could be good.
It's a little weird because I used to do it all the time, like the first two years, and I think if you considered that it wasn't working, you've got to look at an IG and just show, well, I do it all the time, it was a nice exact level of the astral.
This is a good example, Rick.
You know, he's having a good game.
I really want this to be like that kills so much cooler if he survives this because then it's they've actually translated to not
Yeah, it might be feeling it might be peeking everyone
Hey, nice for him low and not overheating half
Is he about to swing this I said that
Hey
to see it slip away twice so the timeout is going to be called. Yeah I mean it's a good
run. There's two over towards side they don't hit the teepee in the corner.
Oh it's lovely movement on this as well, nice shot.
The reality of it so far is that Felo has been on a tear and that was the main criticism
when this roster was built obviously we didn't know how Shia was going to be as an IGL.
We knew the sort of three Turkish players. We knew the Riksik here and sociable were gonna be good
Where we've seen it all the way through last year both here in Riksik
I'd say it'll be preference man. This was last week for Thilo. These are the stats we were looking at
I'm for anybody wondering they are not good. It didn't go well. He got completely shut down right now
He is 14 and three in a game that they are drawing. He is the reason that they are currently
Competitive in this map
It's a very different looking story because my question now goes
Not really
Rough ones
I think that's a very fair call is 14 and three
And he's almost got the same kills as sociable here in ruxik combined, which even the rough ones
I got a lot from yesterday, but I think same as minus one and then plus show
Quite a few K-COP ones.
You could do a bigger picture on Teeth.
Does EMEA not understand a bit?
We've got four teams that have a comp that doesn't make any sense for a bit.
get out of here though is gay crashes fading and it is gone hey let's take this
fight they know they got rid of the drone thanks to crash he's spamming heroine
he popped that out but the swing from kayak into felu I tell you all before
today I'm fine but felu right now he is on a fire and fanatic it seems have
been stopped right as they were up to weeks ago,
or maybe they got so much money,
I thought they would at least go for this.
Especially with this money being so low,
you kinda wanna do damage to this.
It's a really weird call to make, I realize.
I don't understand it.
Maybe if they knew how open A was,
they might give it a go, but I don't think
they're willing to do it.
It's so far away from us.
The additional rifles crash is a little bit long on credit,
so it makes sense, but I like the idea.
Obviously, after a pause after your opponents
They're killing it, let's say they only kill two, let's say they get one each.
That means that if they won the next round, this one and this one would have to be equal.
They'd be lobed by it and have to get the drop.
The drop wouldn't be good, the other guys would suffer.
that the
the fact that rucksack survives the fact he wins the fight inside of it as well it's all that they needed
a five to four score line for Navi
you know I mean you're going crazy
a couple of these were saving but not many
it's all on short
those shibos are in trouble
looking for that we are aggressive sure they pushed a bit a man but that's
sociable of this problem that we're seeing so if the recon gets shot then
you drown he can always get up
oh yeah this is a little bit of a good example of what we're talking about in
terms of like being far away he's kind of close there it's a little easier to
don't just heads up fights that was very nearly one but heroes still alive
on 70
He's really feeling it right now. An opener and to poster
Smokes dissipated 45 seconds left, and they're walking into what is still a fairly stacked up side a nice shot from kayak
Though that's so she will gone still to remain
Shout trying to move over to the back of the site
I mean beck has to win this job
I'm Rooksick and Rooksick's done well
Beck has to walk in with a knife out, not expecting a second chance
He's not going to move with a knife out
It's a good call to go back on this one, but
He's playing too well
The moment almost lines them up and just looks to get out of there out there with 20 seconds
He needs to just run it straight towards Philo's holding the angle
He even turned up A. There's something Philo does not miss a different man this week as he has got another triple
And I believe that's now is it 18 kills? Yeah, 18 of three
Now what an insane performance the fact that this is a 6-4 score line by the way is ridiculous
when he's putting up these kind of numbers looking for the right price.
One of those reference game right.
Oh my god, that's what it is.
Considering, not from him though, I mean, just generally hear a kickoff.
And the reality is, Filu has been awful so far.
So this is a much needed confidence pool.
Other than that, he was average.
rich games i okay once again sociable is gone we've heard the rumors of oh that was kind of nice
though it's a shame that no one can really follow up because of the speed but they made so much
space great job we'll shut him down shallow low but still holding up the child doesn't get another
hit jump starts flying past that eventually out the air will clear up for me it's a little
I think about it
They've been able to do far more than they should and now the other star operate to play on the other side boaster
With a chance crashy's finds a rifle
She's juo didn't make it to the top of the tower in Minnie's ratings, but we'll see if they can do it
Just about surviving still holding on to life
Good shot. I don't know. It wasn't showing the whole time. It's gonna be the sober spacing off
The doppelgangers against each other with only one standing in the end
They're wrapping round each other and heroes got the time against them and they'll still land the immediate action
Time!
There should be enough of it for the defuse
I guess that's a little bit of karma for Crouchy's
I mean he had some crazy clutches in the previous map
It had to go the other way eventually
But 5 HP being the margin for Navi
The climb back continuing at 3 round lead
It started out so nicely, you know, for Vikadju's had a very tough start to get in there
Find a pick do some damage to show as well
And with boots on the ground players on the side. That's a bad thing now for those
Here there's so well in the end fire play time when he does the recon. Yeah, probably
I think he just 40 it owned it, but
He thought he had owned it because he got really good timing, but he's actually just sitting in a place where the recon had ink played, so he shouldn't move down into the spot that it had clear.
But he thought he was being smart, but he kind of owned himself a little.
But I think he was just too like, oh I've owned the timing here.
And actually a little bit, oh my!
Spray change.
the angle if they walk in it gets easy nice work from out here hero why you
can tell he's all right yeah you're gonna stay alive man so it wins around
a fair bit of damage done doesn't want to overdo it i'm just here he sent through poster
on a bit of an off angle managed to clear one but just before the economy divide goes up he falls
and leaves just two standing pipe which bit Valka gives them some space but also locks them in
and here I just take it out the shock didn't land at least alpha on the viper
what's a good thing he's not the jet otherwise he wouldn't have a chance at
this court on the site or above it's gonna cross out of the pit looking to take
this fight very nice I was a great half from love in this eight to four score
line at that just took over the really wonderful performance from Navi they
We just need to keep up this momentum for half two,
but we know all of the third map on our hands.
Damn, really impressive stuff, especially out of Fee-Loo.
And obviously, it's one of those games
where he just is feeling it right now.
But while we wait for the second half,
his shout breaking it down on Navi's rolls for 2026.
The big comparison to last year
that we have three test-tubes
and three test-tubes,
the consulates, they stopped limiting
experience, except play.
I mean they're trying to add in some fast plays.
They're getting a little bit better at that.
Should get better at that.
and I think it's one of his dreams right now, for this year, for this season.
I think Hiro would like to repeat his journey as he had with Matic on Champions 2024.
And Felo also, same as Rooksy, like guy wants to grind, wants to play and obviously win.
For us to come back to international stages, the most important is to keep what we're doing on Prax.
bring this mindset, this like discipline from Pragues, which we spend like let's say 90% of time
right, to the official games. And this will bring us to like top three easily of you, like EMEA,
and it will bring us to the lands so we just need to be able to transform this mindset discipline
to official games. But I think we shouldn't have problems with that because again everyone
I already have some kind of experience on stages and everything goes smooth, smooth so far.
So I don't see any issues which might happen.
Wingman World will...
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
Wingman World will wanting a well-won break.
Let's go!
Well, come back folks, 8 to 4 is the score, now Vee, well, they don't need that many more.
Wingman, what a well earned break.
And so, as we come into this, for Fnatic, a slow first half, but this is their chance to prove that
it got what it takes. 13 days as IGL, yeah that is a lot, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean that's what Prax is for so and then you just have your, then you just stat according
2-1 on the pistols I'm pretty sure and I'll be able to see 1-0 on this map
most of us still be ideal
of whatever team
he was on at the time nonetheless
we are back in the pistol fairly important for
banatic on their mattress
was made to expect them to get the information
finally a little bit of magic from this one as well
and this recon that they did of from middle is a really stop the hit
but you can't exit over towards the side at all
as Vekash can sit a short angle.
Now we're going to have him stand.
He might get close.
3-1 on the pistols, obviously 1-1 this map.
Just a lovely respawn over towards BV.
as well. How confident are you in now be closing out this month? I mean, obviously, I mean, I guess more so
the question is how confident are you in fanatic?
I'm fairly confident. They look very good on the defense last time. Obviously, I think I've switched to a comp that's more
aggressive, like bringing in the jet into the mix and also the yard for that little bit of like escapeism rather than
having I think was the sage in last time, which okay, that's a lot of delay on the defense. So you can have the
swows are still fantastic
by at the wall can also section up angles but
I think this is where I think first you can find one more
get that actor in hand, get up in face, still teleport out of there
as he's doing right now, thank you very much for the example
and also then like what we can see from Wrecker
just a similar thing on the other side of the map so
I think this is the way to get a little bit of attention
I think it's the way to get a little bit of attention
the
He's really clean.
They lost the Marshal, that's him.
Look at that, some player on gun.
But yeah
Because the rest of the team was still fighting elsewhere
So you just fully into the side for I guess this is just a little bit of a boost for him to climb up the board
12 and 9 halfway to that vipers pit
And I also think as well like you look at the current table
To feel you on the attack to replicate those numbers is almost impossible
I would have to be the best game we've seen from him ever
But also one of the best games in the league
I was going to say, sure, he's not going to actually go for something new.
Alpha saves enough money so they can open a drone.
Oh, that was kind of nice.
the attack. I think we have that same level of performance in this half. Alphier's kill
record would be challenged in regulation. Alphier and Zeus, they both own it.
These drones just missed all the doors. He's heard them though. He knows that. Strong
on us. Haha, I wanted to dash. He's just...
I'm not sure
Whoa
Damn it
Very nice from Sush for this one
Dude, if that cash just holds strong there, or maybe just dashes early, he's fine
Well, social might be challenging for that as well. I don't think he's just a boy
He did see this. I think he's gonna get shot from me
He just met a different one and he was like, the other three are coming
So if anything, I think he's gonna be up in the ground
I'm social like, oh wait, I have other teammates
I should talk about them too
I think he is right though, in terms of sociable's ability to just play anything
Like you stick this guy on a table
Okay, big rounds, three in the combine
The map's last year, like the guy in the game
Everybody in the combine next
A jack of all trades and a master of most
Which is a very rare thing to have in his Europe has started off well
Of course, this is a strong angle in this map
So kind of the whole rotate a little bit more freed and potentially
For his teammate and as his teeth they gotta be more
You're gonna be more open to this
He's managed to find that opening pick
Mentioned as well because having that tough first half
two and eight to nine at some point really hard but that is again what awaits
feel a lot of the time they swap sides now that they take that attack approach
feel not posted on the angles instead he'll be swinging into them for now at
least they'll post it on mid-waiting
steps into the angle drops crashes immediately the element of surprise
Paying off tenfold as kayak tries to be timing
That's the drill it's probably decided around
Not entirely sure what he was trying to do
Like why is he why are we
What is the plans
Feeling it right now. I'm well a little bit ahead of the curve again. That's given hero an opportunity
Oh, okay.
Might be nice and easy for them.
Zero? Yeah, it's two extra girls though.
Okay, nice one.
The advantage just gave away back to the 2v2 and I think that's
Was a much really nice and cyclone
You call it pause you say guys gonna play them together alpha was feeling it all the time
I need color double bucky the ends of pigment
But it's great double bucky
I'm a part okay. I was gonna say where they go in the double bucky if they just
Not use more mail and map three very much on the horizon
This is a tough round for the defence to get anything, especially with the patience of
Navi grouping up, leaving one lurker just in case there's a mid push.
I think that does have to be a little bit careful, they are walking up on him, he's
very well aware of the angles though, he doesn't give anything up, he's in trouble.
In fact, he's even being surrounded, yeah, so for this knife there's not going to
miss that one a very big advantage in this round and well not exactly the
weapon you'd want to have the boaster if you've just lost me no I don't think he's
gonna be taking that fight on range but running in the corner is just perfect
driving and see him but he has been spotted by sociable and even with the
damage done it's looking nice I'll see your even use the vipers pit this
actually go for the Astra
no?
one's pretty early
there's a big economic builder but also the fact that
well ok there's a bit
are not cool
I'm not quite sure how he's gonna live with that one but yeah
for NAVI big money maker round but also removing an ult on the other side of
very valuable ult as well
yeah this is the home stretch
It's a great time for the Inzon flawless to come in and put them in a position where they can have that little bit of an economic boost to fall back on.
This is why it depends on flawless.
That cash with the sniper.
Yeah, I mean something like this is what we can't send, maybe we need to keep them for
now.
Like just go set rounds, they can't fasten us, this is.
Yeah, this is great.
I mean, now we just look better on the map for sure.
the
out because they have it because they took such a fast early approach I was
waiting to hear the sound cue called because as soon as you get into doors
you're like okay alt is gonna come through and obviously you can clear out
this space for your guy coming through doors this space for the guys coming out
through main it's huge and actually you see fanatic back off you see them
set up their gate crashes to fall back you see them not take those early fights
waiting for that point of initiation and the point of initiation wasn't
The code when testing these things and sometimes the set plays just grim and the strategy separate really pretty much like fake success
I mean, you're kind of writing what you do down every single round and saying why you lost
Like you have a set strat and you're just losing every single time and you're obviously going wrong
If you're winning all the time as well, you can like write down
Why you're losing the first kill or like retrading
Is there a weak site? What are their reactions? Do they react like this? Should you have an extra person there?
Should you have a utility or a plastic?
and you don't have Utolin, he's just gonna look at the round and work our way.
And then also, something that maybe teams don't do, as well as just like, teams will always collect stats
and then just bunch teams together and be like, on breeze we have a 70% winrate when doing this.
And I would always do like tier 1 or tier 2, because if you're beating tier 1 or tier 2 teams,
the same fucking nose, not just like, bashing the lower teams
Fnatic not looking good on this one
Nah, I agree man, having Becash looks a little rough on the jet, for sure
like my main take away to be honest
in like 3-4 rounds, it's really rough
I think also to play Breeze and have no such threats worries me so much, like pre-barrier
considering the caliber of players he's up against I think you really have to give him a
a leg up
And what the comp that is made to go fast that big come back in the last map as well
That is definitely showing that the level he's hitting in Navi is is far better than in the teams we've seen before
And it was in a team where I said like he's a piece of a puzzle not needing to be
It's decisive calling right now from Navi.
I'm just giving it straight over towards the door, hit 2 with the fast, hero mate, that was nice.
Yeah, very very nice, I knew that way better than them on this map.
I can't fully understand the vision of Pickeringness from what I saw, but I must have done a lot better in crack.
Nobby do look good on the map though, but that doesn't help.
It's weird to pick a map where your rolls are so all over the place.
you
I
any Billy here reporting for duty.
Because, what?
That was just sweet. That was cute.
I'm doing my best here.
You know who else is doing their best?
Fnatic!
I think we're a bit underwhelmed
with that composition. I think that's fair.
I'm not underwhelmed by composition.
I think the composition was really good.
Sorry, but I meant by who was on what
age in that composition.
who was playing what? It was...
Let's go to Navi.
Okay, let's go to Navi.
We'll start there.
Navi, however, looking incredibly strong on Fanatic's map,
they wish...
You know, considering how that first map went,
I don't know if this isn't necessarily what I was expecting,
but the way that they came out showing with their composition
and the fact that every single player was so comfortable
playing the role that they were supposed to
was incredible.
Yeah, I think Sociable being on the Yoru
was one of the main ones that we highlighted going into that.
I think that he definitely got to show his flexibility and diversity in terms of agent pool
But I want to shout out Philou because this is a player that we don't often get to praise and I think throughout that map specifically
He performed exceptionally
I think when you consider the year that he had into one last year being on that choirost or not finding the success and
Really just someone that's not been on many people's radars in that sense
Yeah, I think coming out and being able to put up a performance like that against fanatic as well is just yeah
Yeah, he's had a bit of a weird kick-off so far, like he has had matches where he dominated like this, and then last week he went minus 20.
So it's like we don't really know where to place him.
But like when he's on this kind of form, Navi is just incredible.
But it's like, I guess going forward for Navi, it's just about more consistency.
There's like a very high variance in Fudish play right now.
But you can stay the same for Vikas.
The first map of that Viper was absolutely phenomenal and now we're coming onto this
jet here on Breezebilly and it was a little underwhelming.
Yeah, I mean 300 plus ACS from Felo is insane but putting up against Vakaj's performance
is just the numbers there are not really looking that nice.
And I think many kind of touched on it in the agent select as well as why are we
seeing Vakaj on the jet when they have a player like Alpha.
This is something that we've been kind of speaking about all throughout kickoff
so far is why are they not just making use of the fact that they have alpha there and in
saying that he does look great no matter what agent you've been playing for alpha so it's
like do you just let him pick at this point. I think it's like an interesting discussion
would you rather have a player who's still putting up numbers on an agent that isn't
supposed to put up the numbers or would you rather aim that kind of role and I think
that they would obviously answer preferable on the agent they doesn't need to like
you don't have the same like you can have the impact despite not being on a job.
But I think to me the bigger point really is just the way that Fanatica are approaching these double drillers' compositions.
I think on Split they traditionally usually have it down, but on these other maps it just feels like
they're wandering around the map a little bit, getting picked apart, and it doesn't really feel like
they're playing double drillers correctly on some of these situations.
I have to give praise to Navi, like I think that their defaults on this map looked a lot better than Fanatica's in the afternoon.
Like they were doing an elbow default very quickly at the start of the round and it was clear.
Sorry, Mitch is crowding up the stairs like he did a horror movie.
I'm distracted completely.
So yeah, I've got to give praise to Novi.
I think they understood the map a little bit better in that series.
And I still got question marks over Fnatic's double-joules approach when they're playing with this map.
Yeah, then we're heading to Bind next and then in the map that we haven't actually seen yet from the side of Fnatic.
So are we expecting a similar approach when it comes to their composition in regards to like, seeing the double-joules?
Yeah, you can definitely play double-joules on this map.
I think quite a lot of teams have played it so far.
so far, they're at kickoff and there's nothing wrong with it, but again it goes back to
do we see Alpha on the dualist, do we see him on the Viper, do we see Vikash on the Viper,
like this is the kind of question for us. No, okay, never mind. I thought that for
last year we were going to play Taro because they were playing it a lot last year,
but they could have gone to double for them. And now we're seeing Alpha on Raid, so I'm
going to be honest with you, I think this is probably one of the strongest, if not
strongest compositions on the map and seeing Alpha get to play as dualist again makes me
Ah, you have a big smile on your face, so that's what we'd like to see, they don't want to play with them
Double jewelers in the roles make sense?
Well, we can expect from their side of things, so they do have the tail on there
We'd love to know why they run on bind all throughout kickoff so far
I think for them, they need to go into this map, learning the mistakes that they had against gentlemates specifically
because that was a rough one for them
Yeah, I think Filiu in particular was having a rough time on that bind last time against gentlemates
Alex, thank you for doing that.
Alex, come on. We know Buster's got that.
Dylan is chilling as well with the 57 months long time.
Thanks for the 57.
their opponent's back. You can disagree. I always just say Fnatic. So I'm
unfortunately, I just prefer Fnatic's composition. They've got tape on Navi.
Yeah, they've got a better comp there for sure. And anytime I see it, I'll fall on the Raze.
Is that the reason why you prefer the composition?
No, I think the composition itself, as we saw last year, your Raze was just dominating
Globals, and I think it's just wrong. I think I'll go the opposite side then,
say Navi, just so I can, you know, be on the other side of that. I think that
If you have hero, bricksick and sociable, the fire part of the game is great, but if you don't have the performance today, I think it outclasses the classic.
Okay, well, we have a disagreement here on the desk, but maybe the casters can have an agreement over the error regarding who the thing's going, because we're ready to head into our final map of this series with Mitch and Tom.
Disagreements on the desk, you'll love to see that. I just want to know if me and Minnie have a problem. I mean, he was looking at me real weird while I was coming up the stairs there. I know what that was about.
Navi and fanatic three maps. I think we deserve that. We always talk about the boaster versus angel head to head
And we got to see in the last round that comparison of shell
What is this question for this roster with angel as the I'm not gonna hunt the system purely to the puzzle
I think you already know the answer
in terms of experience was a 13 days against over 2,000 as an IGL but
training maps and now they even look better on their map well I'm fanatic
map the fanatic on attack 3-1 on the pistols right now because he wants
to lose or this goes down to the lower I think he's been doing pretty good at
getting that to come true so far I don't think he's helped out KB at all
but he's been having a bit of a rough one but maybe find will be the map where
We can see him
Ash goes over towards B, pulls the rotate out, seems like he had nothing towards A
War is over towards A
I want to scrape pressure like it'll go towards the block vision, it's good for after plant.
I mean, fanatic with this kill?
They should think it's a 2-2.
It actually is a 2-3 here.
Very nice, man.
It's good to kill everyone.
Before this drill there's a prowler over towards B as well, it's a slow down that rotate.
Keep him interested over towards B.
The slow methodical pistol, it's nice though.
Helps to impact, it's good to kill everyone.
That's all there is to the right home about four more players need to be dropped. It won't be a flawless round
Doubt it's gonna be wonderful as I lift to hunt them in one to zero four and one on the pistol
Very strong start to the pistol at least the pistol rounds have been pretty nice though
A lot of stakes on the line here
Loser of this guy going up to the kayak was the uh
Heck was the reason off to their pistols
Obviously the winner
I think the teams that are behind me are reading the meta wrong or they tried and they didn't
watch them.
I think they're reading it wrong.
In the off season they went to something and then it's just not as good as they thought.
And then they've spent so long cracking out that they're just gonna, just gonna go
on front.
There's maybe a couple of cases where like then might have teams might have tried double
duelist and it doesn't sweep the IGL like their style but majority of the time they
just would have got a wrong read of it and just get a stick with it, it's too hard to
change, you can maybe change two maps, three maps but the full seven you're done.
split to be the third map I expected maybe the fanatic would pick a diss has
been such a strong map for them and then I thought the bind might even be the
pick of Navi Alex I would just stick with the fade to be honest just good
of it mates I still think it's a map that we we hadn't seen from fanatic
Bobsy if you go off history we know that this has always been a comfortable
map for any boaster squad unless your team doesn't play your Alex didn't
play Sky.
Oh!
Bikes close.
They're so friendly.
They're just waiting to clear the whole of B and um...
to clear the whole of being, um, not going top of this. At least the two-bus and personal
single four.
rifle so it's still definitely some expense and not ideal but they will still come in with
three rifles for this round and you look at the players that are hauling the mouth here
Vekash and in fact even the potential of a fourth year boss is going to bring it in
as well.
Rise and normally boss will drop this but even because crash is this shouldn't take
any kind of first contact.
Maybe a simple ram for Fernandic on this one.
Pressure, Raleigh goes down, takes control, drove over towards Long, and then Insta go
back.
I say at least was for the swing of the chart
Alex I don't really do that man
He can see that hero and rucksack we're holding that waiting for him to pop in and give a pick away
But a more passive sounds from fanatic after they take that initial map control as TP is gonna be taken
I'm gonna wrap background in fact. Chow. It's so weird right now. He's rapping over
Yeah, they're wrapping backgrounds. He's gonna be cut off. And the third one, fake this owl, go back
That is so nice from Alpha. It's a real committed position. He can potentially get wrecked from two sides
It's not.
It's too into the bonus, you would imagine.
That's how Rage's happens.
Ooh, it's close to me in Stonkill.
God, it's getting more. The maid actually looks pretty decent.
as a reason we wanted him on the dual list on the raise we know what he could do heroes
don't want to do
dude how much does one guy have to do seems like he was maybe expecting someone a little
bit closer the flash has given the game away i know exactly where he stands holding the
angle bear mind how low alpha is he could be spammed out of the box at the cross being
held but it's out there all day long absolutely not strong one of the rifles they had that
Took over
One kill to start catch a shell opens up the space for the rotate back to a nice stuff this one
Oh, he's 26 feet in every other fight every other fight. He got caught walking back to the bathroom
He swung back and then
Survives the spams from a sociable swinging it together to close that out
That's a ridiculous round from alpha a five and zero start from him as well
Well, 54321, when we get to see the scoreboard nicely done for Fanatic, we'll quickly balance.
For now, V, 0 on the board, losing round 3, as they have to play in the losing map.
Sure, they've pushed Fanatic, they looked great on map 2.
It's a great sign for their vetoes moving through this tournament.
The breeze is now something people have to be worried about.
Yeah, but yeah, that's all it's going to amount to.
Yeah, we really need to see them warm up into this game.
I think that, again, for Na'Vi, I think staying in the middle bracket is more important.
Any question in the 10s of Valorant Community Awards?
Nah.
Not my kind of finger.
For Na'Vi, we saw with their roster last year that they did attempt that to make it
to Champions, and I had to go a long, long way, made it quite far.
The problem, though, is they no longer have Angel on the server, and I feel like
that's a massive difference.
you are a less experienced IGL even though you get to check in with Angel every once in a while
he's still there he's the voice whispering in your ear for a couple of minutes per game it's not
the same and it's gonna make things more difficult if you have to go through some of the rushes
that will inevitably drop down and make me look through the winners i mean is it just not going
to be the same winners that all the regions did already one of those will have to have
dropped down the other will have already dropped down so there's going to be a lot of high
pressure games that you have to make the run-through middle bracket gives you an
extra chance and more importantly it gives you some time
and that's something that Navi will need time over this year I mean something
Angel said as well in the podcast about this project in general that it's not
something obviously they don't come in hey we can lose and it's fine guys you
come in you aim to the top of course you do but reality the situation that
they understand is that this is something that we'll take time to build to its highest level
and especially to be more like HLTV Awards.
It's about HLTV Awards works because CS is very hands-off so they would never do this stuff.
Whereas Valorant, all the regions give out awards.
They're competing with Valorant for an awards thing where they already do an awards thing.
Okay, nice shot from Chow.
We've seen this a couple of times throughout the series so far, but the slow start of the team...
You better then get up.
...and the pistols to low buys bailing them out.
And again, with how slow...
...Panatic likes to play.
We're gonna try and sell this Ruse once again.
This time, though, the rotation...
Has a big bang to the back!
Whoa!
Pistols so advanced.
That's very true.
Very true.
Oh, by the way.
And the teaming, you can see.
Out one of the players here.
Chow already taking immense amounts of damage.
damage and he's not gonna survive the danger of slowly dissipating hero on
sight will lose so much better than this man and although the buyer on maybe
time up not be
an addict of stabilized it was only a it was an easy kill in towards
I just feel like you might have to start taking risks of like the 40 second
walking games for nothing
really nice stuff one player falling in the form of Alphier show stop
Did I just discord DMU or was it a fake account mate?
It's gonna be a fake account. Trust me, the mob struggled to give me chance to back on discord.
I'm not gonna be messaging people.
I mean this is a big danger coming up in round number five. Yeah, I think like you understand
Why shall use the old there like it but now coming off the back of a defeat?
It's an unfortunate circumstance because you look at that and go in that moment 30 seconds left. You got an opening
You can delay the whole team. Maybe you can pull a full rotation of the old squad
Not a bad place to put it. We're going into a round loss
Coming in with no alts up against three alts when your four zero down
That's now a bit more of a problem with no credits as well a the fact that this is the
Oh really sonny I should check that out your eggs into the basket for your opponents have so many get out of jail free
Cards on incognito as all 22 months. Thanks for the time. Thank you. Thank you
I'm the get go a timeout call. Thank you for the value the importance of this like the fact of split
Where it was a dominant 11 three showing from fanatic Navi gave them too much leeway too much rope
Did you go full Vitality Giants?
I said Vitality would win on Flatshark.
Should be close though.
Probably doesn't make sure Giants, um, not sure that Haven stomp works with a demo up there.
And I think they might like pick it or something for a certain reason, at least that map.
I'm looking like an audio mic a little bit, yeah, yeah.
Not bad, instant reaction from Fnatic.
Early group up for the site here, but they got the wrong company.
I can't really hold to that one. They just win this random out of one.
that you're thinking about at least. One, two, five.
They've spotted the both out. Both players seeing Clarence will take space on the site
now on the front, shorty, in-hand. Clarence, come play for quarterback, 50, HB, left to
block the ball.
If he was alive for so long on site.
I'm getting credible.
Yeah, good understanding of the importance of the round. Put the pill into it as well,
Honestly, I'll try and do better next time.
Don't apologize for that, just be better.
Okay, I'll try.
It's fine, it's fine. We're gonna let it slip this one time.
But, uh...
You're running out of rope here.
As are Navi. 5-0.
And okay, they saved these weapons.
That's a great start.
No exits for Filu or Hero.
Yeah, it's a nice reaction from them pretty fast on this as well.
Just helps them have the Ops to keep it simple, so...
We need to see those early fries.
Like, Filu there.
I love the idea, but they're waiting so far back and the fact is only guy forward can keep me naked as well.
Actually, they're forced to mentor no matter what.
That's so unlucky.
Rock it, man.
Well, that isn't a comeback to the ball.
Yeah, maybe their reaction to the Yor-Ots a little off, but hard to deal with when you got into that.
No, it's valuable though.
Haha, those both missed them.
We're swing, and they lost the money.
So show stop for the big problem, but it's called cratchage right away. Vikasian boaster two versus four boasters
Oh my god
Great connection. I'm only gonna be sent to the wraparound ship
Oh you got another?
What boaster got another there?
The Molly fire in time
Or if all the Orpeza landed but if the people went out but a snake bite in hand
He can make this very dangerous indeed
He goes marching forward snake bite landed
No way, I cannot believe they win this. Buster has done a masterclass here.
He's hit a bang, a shot, the molly's good to delay. I cannot believe he gets another.
Yeah, the vital you took at the end was a great one.
He kinda got it done. My creative pressure in the right for me actually hit, right?
He didn't up the spank.
What's that bounce stuff for though?
It went up top!
That's so much better than I thought it was!
Ah, that's insane.
He has a lineup for the top of the box.
Yeah, you don't?
Come on.
You can't play this game.
This is why we don't have a whole farm of Viper on this map.
He doesn't have the lineups.
That makes sense.
Yeah, he started slamming it as well.
It's your fault.
started slamming it as well. They kill from Ruxak, don't they?
The truck, yeah. The truck is kind of tricky. We've seen Molly's going inside it as well.
They've got ulti's, they're gonna have credits back, but a 7-0 start on this, this is getting to be too steep a hill to climb.
Oh, sleeping.
What kind was the sleep?
Oh, sleeping.
Go mate, go back to sleep.
I'm going back to sleep after that, Jill.
It's just high spinners.
Oh, don't knife him.
All the cash.
Oh, you, don't you dare.
Don't you, VACACHE!
NOOOOO!
7-0!
A knife in the book!
sending a message
I'm not touching that.
Oh, well.
Stylish indeed.
7-0 start and for now the hope is
awaning. Oh my goodness.
The light is looking very dim indeed.
What is that?
You see Alpha?
You see Alpha with the gun.
I'm reaching around Twinkly's
handle on a corner there.
Guy might be off. We're two series away.
After this one from one of these teams being in Santiago and we're wiggling rifles at them
We'd love to see
Trade-out
Ultimates they were built up into this round at chance now
To try and deny them at least the additional space, but they have avoided it
And they don't really do much behind it. Could have kept them behind of one way
Okay, then Viper mollied after, feels like a weird reaction, so he's not using a tae-roll
to actually get nothing off that other than like a 5-second delay.
goes in one HP, a spam will be enough land, Dorviel doesn't catch it, no, Crashies doesn't
know that he had a plunder dead to right! Still the oohs defenders need to push on forward,
they have been to her down to just for catch, and my goodness, he's got a lot of utility
coming his way. For people surviving, they could maybe do a comeback. No room for error,
as a 7-1 score line, finally, Navier on the board. Yeah, it still took a lot,
We we saw all those ultimates build up and they are now all gone once again
Viper's pit put an early armor get into clearing the back off the site allows for the time
And just holding within the pit
It's around
He's become he's become a local
The only problem for now is I can't repeat that
Which yeah, it's a bit of force and especially the Viper was good setup
What was that? What was that fear?
7-1
Fnatic
Could this be the start of the downfall the quite different like they're gonna get double killed
Not effect guys is anything to say about it. This is nasty
They just lost around their responses to fully freeze and wait that smoke's gonna pay for a suit
He's got to
Cornering
overheated a bit, but you know what I'll take it he should have been dead
that's be fair I don't I don't think he expected a third player to be even beaten
I mean he definitely didn't expect a third now
win one lose the next and one of these has to save
all right okay that's not a free salvo yeah you're gonna
That's what you know, he's running on all seconds
There you go
Yeah, I mean there we go no showers controls the reason why they didn't put the orb on someone else
Oh, we're gonna take many off the desk. We're just throwing you in
I haven't heard him give one of these pieces of it
These are all leaks. He's at weeks to prepare as well. Come on man. Up your game
You're gonna stare me like that at the top of the sails. Well, come on seven to one
I think it might be preference to be on a sale and so you get out of not
there you go eight to one I mean look anything could have happened to either I
I think could have happened I was literally holding my breath. That's nice been good on this one
The only time he hasn't been good is when we put him on jet
The flash just not catching
Yeah, I mean it goes kind of far as well, but I hope that's sooner
Yeah, well that would definitely fix your breeze
What are you going to do coming into today and every other day actually?
That's crazy because map one he was nuts, map three he's nuts.
Yeah, map two.
I'm not seeing any correlation.
What happened?
But yeah, the thing is for now, this time it makes perfect sense.
You hit 7-0 down, you went around and immediately, not just lose, lose so quickly in those
initial fights that you were again left into the situation where your best path
forward is just a runaway.
Your best path forward is to put it one-self and when they have 45 seconds left.
Why is everyone so surprised to see that cash on the gen?
I mean, we've got Alfa on the team.
B coming into map 3. I am going for Navi like they looked like the better team breeze
They dominated split. They were awful in the first half and then they learned how to play
I think by and large. I would have more faith in them
performing rounds around and yet they have completely
Fallen apart on buying
He's an anguished. I mean that's who is a guy
Most of us are main jewelers 5 years ago if you want to go and use that theory.
Oh, he missed.
Oh, a little slow on it.
That's how oh I know so a TP from shout
As part of the deficit now sociable this fight versus Alfie ends up being everything he needs to try and hold some ground
And in fact here is already running his way back
Boaster gives him an angle, but that was a spike. He needs to just get out of there
Yeah, he's made a back around through long but ready to burst out until that Molly blooms was sociable
Yeah, and they see nothing. Hey, good. I'm stuck considering long pretty soon
play another narrow margin, now we have a round.
And that's always been the scary thing in this game,
is that when they are winning rounds,
it's okay, they've had to expend a lot,
showstopper right at the end,
just to make sure that the round is converted.
Yeah, surviving with one player alive after a save round,
it doesn't exactly leave you with loads of credits to spare.
So this could almost be a two for one,
leaving a 10, two off.
Because they get this back to eight, four,
maybe there's a wild.
But I do think that anything less
The only time he wasn't at Jolis was Stage 2 last year.
Becash?
He telling me he played 42 maps of Sky, 24 maps of Viper, 21 maps of Preach, 17 maps of Silver, all in one Stage 2
Man they play a lot of games in Stage 2.
That's crazy.
That's like 20 times more than most teams.
of
it out it's just a fighting that's bad okay I mean I don't want the fighting to
be bad generally this kill is very much you get the criticism in the middle
yeah she gave them a compliment just before and then that was the compliment
in the end he knows how to give good feedback although they can't hear him
so he's giving that just to Milan personally I personally I'm lucky
with the games he means he's getting a lot of time now
One round left to play for the Viper's pit item and a showstopper available
Fulu almost taking crashes out of the round right away. The off doesn't get fired
I don't expect to see too many risks being taken by fanatic unless they involve
We are going in first with a big old rocket on the shoulder. No way. They've cleared back corner the back
I just got a double kill problem. That's crazy
Good to see that they learned from the mistakes. Even though it wasn't a mistake last time
They checked the first time as well a
A standoff. Yeah, dude. We might be here for a while, but we're slightly more higher by power weaponry
Yeah, they might be able to do something up on the shot
I don't think so. No, it's a game of patience. Maybe a game of chicken for feel-oo
He has to worry about his back when his execute comes through, but he's got two teammates close by the cover
So don't as much
Oh, the worry on his shoulder, she'll stop percenting. It's a tough year. It takes down Rookson, but the rest are caught back
The utility keeping them away. Where was he?
Yeah, and then they thought of the guy in front of the TP.
20 seconds, Spike has got... Oh, nice shot, man.
This Bilo kind of honourer when it gets an off blow.
Oh, did he just...
What on earth?
You can say did he just make a bad decision?
Actual one HP.
Dude, I felt like a gun to shot there, but maybe I'm wrong.
has a flash to play with a pot flash in here and crash he's gone it would leave a one
hp player on the other side the barrel got spotted he's all the gun that now crashes
is behind both of them the first one is free and he just goes back he's gonna stay alive
and get the fates fade on big fade on
the molly it's gonna be revealed if he waits any longer and vettel's on the hp
he's gonna be on the attack and vettel's in the clutch who would doubt them
And it's just one of those, though, it's just... the round is just done on the smallest margins.
Ah, bruh, he heard that TP, and you can see and understand it from his POV.
He's also hunting very fast with a kill from the TP, but...
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Thank you Portola for the prime as well.
I'm supposed to retire if he could do well coaching.
Yeah, he'd obviously be a great coach.
I would imagine he would go to streaming instead.
I also think he can be a player for at least the next three years
just because he has great matterings.
You're calling
He's one of the best we've seen
Oh little one free one becoming way more popular at the moment
It wasn't just a random player chosen, there's always still a behind it, individually.
This tears sound in some rotate with the 3C, get 4, you always got Trump saying.
Maybe he should play mobile, I put.
You know, we're gonna breath the fresh air.
We're finna act. 4 players towards A to start.
Not much spotted.
Presence down on B.
Oh, they've read it.
They don't have luck with they saw on B.
They think that was a bad player.
Large Oza with the Prime as well.
Thank you so much, Oza.
Thank you.
already made it here but they're ready to burst out i think they're going fast yeah
the yoru flashed through backside already cleaned back
the nade has pushed the midtoy side to it for now please try to get a full hold
he could bounce from that's a muslin pistol for navi with that spike ticking in their favor
even the hp advantages you feel like this has to be one that goes their way so
Oh, are they gonna think it's spreads?
Okay, they're on top of that.
God, I ended up getting wrecked.
He thought that it's gonna pre-fire.
They can even go half on this one.
It was nice for me to get, actually, it was the deadly duo of these two.
much needed pistol right yeah they got a chance
into 4-2 pistols
and from the dogma of all the prime as well thank you to the 2mars
I appreciate that
my food queues well with the prime and
atomic parsley also thank you to the 2mars
it was the prime thank you to the 2mars
he's spending potential overtime
Far away from being diffused and he was running long
I'd be impressed if Narvi can get a toe tee
He'd remember the pistol head
Through that smoke in the end
Oh ho ho ho ho
Well that's quite a response
At least we said it before like how happens
Jesus
Let's just drop them a floor
I'm sure if it's anything worth fighting for
Either way Fnatic won't go for it
No
I would assume
Based on them having three rifles
That it was a pistol
You would think so
That would be my gamble
I'm pretty sure it was
And they have to go back in that direction anyway
To pick up the spank
So, yeah, not seen anything collected.
I'd be a little annoyed if I was Alpha, to be honest.
It would have been a nice shot to start a mine.
And I've got the only gun into the rounds.
You guys have all died everywhere.
From Fnatic in this round, we're almost zero.
But for Na'Vi, it's all about...
Then we play a kind of vibes.
And maybe keep it a little bit simpler.
Social is isolated.
That's the only nervous thing.
He was just waiting to catch anybody going for that orb,
and he's even spotted the last player as well.
So they could now freely go in another direction.
They might not want to now though because that is a gun on the floor
Does he just chuck it I like this I'm just gonna leave it I just gonna put that decoy through
Make him think he's coming for the TP. I mean, you know you're up against the Yoru, but
It could work the angle opens the door as well
So they're worried, but yeah, they're the step pattern. It all seems a bit too obvious and immediately
They abandoned that position playing much more passive and waiting
The actual play to come through even if you can walk the way you're sure to make sure
you're going to come up with your second set.
And have you do very well to avoid those dangers.
Nine flies on the board and the slow resurgence.
This is the round where it really gets decided to open up and make it rifles out.
Cause already you've seen the old ones.
I mean, this one is not bad.
Everyone else is on top of the pick.
I do only get best what they made.
Gump's in an opening pick.
The gun was dropped, that battle from Kayak drops the bulldog and that's gone.
He just left it on the floor, didn't even bother bringing it with him.
He didn't want to deliver it back to the team.
Hazel wanted it to be picked up, every day of the week.
The thing is, he's still coming for more rifles for this round.
As bonus as well, this was always the navi way.
It was always the angel way of trying to make sure that those third round purchases are deadly.
Okay, sociable's gonna have to take a hit for it, but a lot of the time you're gonna see
It can just get crashing to heaven now but causes problems as they think about that bathroom control being taken over
The best comes on this
What a shocking round from fanatic
This one was really bad.
I got smog over towards default.
No confidence going down.
He feels like he can get over towards showers.
Moe goes down and around here with him.
I mean, maybe double whiff, to be honest.
I don't know how fast it was in the fourth shot, but...
KGD, thanks for the prime.
I think that last year, I don't think he impressed me massively.
We'll give it a do for them.
on the table now? I mean yeah, it comes a lot more convincing when they win a bonus.
This is what Navi were doing when they were winning a lot of their maps. Pistol into a
bonus. On attack, especially then.
But the really interested me when talking to Angel is like he said about like you might watch players who have decent stats in games like in officials
And when watching for you, you saw him play very very well in their practices
And he went well, I know if I get the confidence out and that's what I'll see
But I do want two pistols into two bonuses right?
On the tank?
Pretty sure
You're looking at a guy who does decently all the time in officials and I'd rather have that guy and try and make him better
than see the potential and try and run with it.
Shall having a bad day off the show.
If anybody was going to be able to get someone
to fulfill that potential,
it's the guy who has more leadership experience,
at least from the IGL role,
than anyone else in this game.
That's a fact.
I mean, honestly, considering he retired
from play this year,
he has to be one of the most experienced
FPS players.
20 years.
years I mean most people that have been in e-sports that long are now like
Orgoners or something in the background like you know people that were around in
those early days they don't they sticking around is one thing but sticking
on as a player yeah you know coaches managers sure you know whatever but as a
player is ridiculous even doing it as a coach eventually this guy has stayed
relevant as well he hasn't played he hasn't been paychecks steal on a roster
he's been building he's been calling out for people for paychecks stealing and
making some decent runs we've seen him at international one of our names man
we ever got to do him an artist it was uh it was almost like a cage fight
happening but verbally i loved it but yeah and then you have him as a
coach sitting there i mean it's you can only imagine the potential that he
Yeah, one sprite, and through it again.
Surely we don't see Alpha buying the hero gun again, and then everyone else facing before he gets a chance to use it.
Okay, this list seems a little better. We're going as groups together, trying to nape them.
Oh, man. He's kind of got him killed though. His teammates kind of got him killed.
if I'm out from so tilted from these two rounds though I'm gonna be you take it
I'm gonna be so good deal now they look to rotate back towards the other side of
the map crash he's there bandit in hand the rifle now on Bolster there's
something that I'll be able to repurchase into the next round anyway so
at least looking to try and make this one a bit more costly not allow
the economy to go too crazy because if you look at not be authority through
the roof and they will manage to get a couple anything more than unlikely and
impossible a money finale absolutely incredible again start the truth raise
one away from the sky last time they lost the pistol right so fanatic we
even further in the league yep if they lost a pistol in embarrassing fashion as
well it was the double flag where they gave up both sides of the thing I'll
push on both sides have been in both players that point both sides of mid
and they're flying and killing one or two people.
Yes.
Jets.
Okay, they have a strat called Giants, I assume,
and we're potentially going to get to see it.
Let's take a look.
Is it a team or just big people?
So right, start the round, so we're going to flash ourselves.
So he doesn't rate GX's initiators, that's clear.
Okay, yeah.
Walk step two, and then nobody moves.
Flash ourselves, freeze. Okay. I'm scribbling this down, hold on.
If anyone wants this later.
Fall jump off the map, even though on this map it's not possible.
Poison's on!
For self.
Okay, lose the opening pick to Kayak on an operator.
Freeze.
I'm not seeing the vision just yet.
Yeah.
All.
Yep.
Okay.
And you've got the Tiger going through.
First three.
And a clear.
Smoke to the back of site.
Showstopper.
Okay.
Yes, you need to have the showstopper.
It's popped towards a player that's favorite.
to kill you get to zone time as it keeps on taking
but I need to get on this one quite a lot of time they need to buy
a little bit more time for themselves force those fights have already
posters cut the first he might just have this the shot stone land though
heroes there to save the day in the club Jesus get in
but I think I'm gonna start getting worried
I did it how did Alpha die here I'll tell you
we go again back at the races popping off individually having the same clutch
hey it's a little babe goodbye Rooksik sleep well at least until next round going
back for a little bit more okay Philo this is a little crazy man
go for the same fire it's risky it's ball that is a little risky it has
worked out it's just got a broken gun now who was the man with a guardian I'm
sure that we'll be picked up there you go into kayaks hands still they've
got a wide net spread. Three players looking like they're posturing towards B and in fact
the fourth of hero is going that way as well.
The walk up on Fnatic. The timing here I think will be a little slow but it depends
on hero. He could get caught here and in fact he sticks around. He's catching them
instead. The trap sprung. And a man with ult and salvos to play with doesn't need
any of that utility belt cleaning up at least the first two
they've rotated around to the A side so they'll be on their way back
they'll have a third fight but i think they'll probably be in
execution he's trying to just get time well played by hero
one away from his all round fall four and essentially himself in the spawn
and nine to nine the comeback is on it's like over the prime appreciate the
five miles thank you thank you for that that really changed this for me
because that's the buy round fanatic fall like there
it was a guaranteed equalization especially from the 3d5 like that that was the problem they got the
two opening picks and then the fight comes into the round i want to say as well the hero i was
worried that we sure all the staffs were going to win this round we've been a bit quieter
do they go for a normal VIP setup? wait why is my VIP here?
one and seven feel it was an 18 and three starting out one of the naps so it's hard to
also have it's safe you're gonna save the dough it might work out well
five-person sight hit. Oh wait. Oh okay.
Whoa!
Tail! Tail, when you're playing against a...
when you're playing against a yoru and it could have been a clone as well.
I guess he was close enough so they didn't hit a fake footsteps if it was a clone.
The gigantic win man, the gigantic win, no bullets taken, no damage taken I guess is
the better way to say it, the say they push forward and push in, it's really fast and
for everyone they got two ults, they only used one of their ults, they got two of
Okay, around to reset him for Narvi, but obviously they won't me so much.
the
Is it this continuous, slower style of plague?
We saw them with an impressive comeback on Split, and it wasn't enough.
Is it going to be the same again?
A minute fifteen on the clock, isn't it?
I have the spark.
Spread the net, but now?
That's being pulled back.
Everyone abandoning the A site,
pretty nice over towards there yeah probably just went over towards him
they're up short in theory, pause the rotate, you'd imagine with these ults the fade would be rotate
but...
oh okay
I'm quite surprised that it was deep to delay towards who could make it.
Ooh, so it's pretty weak, man.
It's pretty weak.
That's really weak.
Alpha's got to do a lot.
Trit's enough, man.
That cash sense is pretty useful.
So for that operator might have so
Just so weird in my opinion to make him rotate with a salt
You have a phase it would have some you tilt to help out
immediate pick an immediate mistake
That was the opportunity sociable to for health
That's the second time kayak's been a little bit of lucky not to get a kill
But I almost feel like it has to just be the operator say take something back with you
It's just the timing for crashes. If he throws away his gun, he might lose his life for it
Yeah, it's time to go. He's looking for a little bit more damage
He wants those picks he finds now to flee for the hills. I think he's made it nicely done great value coming out of
Crashes in the end double digits though for now be neck and neck again
This was a nine three half. I'll be competent throughout how now be looked flat
Such an important round for Fnatic. They have to end survival mode.
Sorry, Viper ultis.
There's an opportunity there. I think Shao just dodged the prefire angle. He's been burned by that spot before.
An early stack up operator of course, saved from the previous round and their catcher's now used his pit towards it.
Yeah, they profiled out of the razor.
Early stack up players.
They go back in the shower.
Backers though, social workers, gain the seekers, which as a counter is as bowed as good as it gets.
I wonder if they'll go back and try and pressure that pit.
I mean, it becomes too obvious, surely.
Cool, they're gonna use the pressure, they're gonna use Seekers for pet, and then actually just hit B.
Then you do Seekers closer here, though.
All three go over towards B, you guys gotta cancel this, surely.
He took the EuroTP, but we took the EuroTP, you know what I mean, side of the hero.
We'll try to make this more costly for Navi, but the late play by Rooksick has shut him down.
They knew he was there with the TP given away, the Q.
Honestly, I'm surprised to not see a save already, but they're gonna go for this, a 2v4, now a 2v3.
Kayak's up, could get the right back, but Hero...
Oh, wait, Hero 25 to 8, man. Oh, my God.
That's the third of this, and Navi's lead as a result.
It's fun because we've got the talk about this fanatic roster with their cash coming in, him having a great game.
Yeah, I have to get one. I mean, now for all those that kinda had to go.
The one who got away, the one who you let go, the one who was standing in for your squad,
has now headed over to Narvi and might be the one to send you into that final like that lower bracket hero is cooking 25 and 8.
to bring back
I mean, yeah, what a game to do
Again to do it just with a rifle in his hand and a level of gold. We haven't seen
That's Navi's lead at a time out for fanatic. That pressure is mounting
And they almost lost split to a comeback. They got destroyed on breeze and now another big lead
I'll be it wasn't 11 free at least
Say I think you have to have a leg up without the pistol here in this half
And you got to have a mix these days
You could have dangerous map one could have been
And the coach listens to team comms. Yeah, they do
A different look
I'll be showing that mental resilience
Talked about the
The fact that this was a path that they were going to go down building up their new IGL,
bringing Philu from a squad of nothing, like failures in the past and turning it into a
duelist that people would fear, but he's done that today, and they might be able to
pull off a crazy comeback versus the comeback kings.
Of course it's not done till it's done, it's not over till it's over, but you
have to fear for fanatic at this point the early aggression look like it could
have given them something but now I could have been a fade-out but
I'm gonna fall them back applying paychecks
I think we could get us all before the game's done
and already
Modular is decent info and pushing forward is not gonna give me any more of the hero
Oh
Impressive man impressive often them much. I think
We survive with purely set strats and very basic cooldowns, probably not man, you get
wrecked these days.
NRG are probably the closest to that in terms of the successful, but I feel like Ethan
does a fair amount and I want to see this in vocal plays in our team as well.
three three matchups last year
up against Navi
now I'm looking to let it slip as Kayak drops hero
two rounds to get to OT and Fnatic already putting their best foot forward to start this one
thirty seconds on the clock and a wraparound from Alpha should lock this round in for good
it's a 3B and even doubles up
good though you get to the next round
I've got the credits for it that's for sure but that valuable show stopper
10 seconds left
I didn't play anymore
I shot from Xiao but I think the next one's gonna be a bit tougher 12 to 11
yeah really it's gonna be tough as odds the hard round for now will be to win
for me is that they have that coming into this next round a chance at OT
They're close, they almost lost a foot, but managed to see it out in overtime in two different
maps.
Of course, with foot they faced elimination after that game for Na'Vi, it could be the
same story.
They can't come to the end.
Two ways once, like an easy call.
The problem now though, is that the ult is not in their favor.
They'd have to go to either side of the map to collect an AWP for a player.
This is good though, putting someone up to work short, I mean the others running up short all the time.
They could have run up short, I mean they hear that.
Oh that is insanely bold, I can't believe he gets that kill.
I know that is insanely bold. To do that at 12-11? Absolutely madness, I can't believe he gets that kill.
Oh, bolster dies on site, Kai has to kill one.
Oh, it's a big miss. Oh, and the nade blew up his TP.
nothing
revealed still available
what? don't do that to me
please do not do that to me
incident i beg please
for quite a while
they need to get a move on crashes only
just make an end to the site they were waiting for the vipers screen
hoping that that could give them a little bit of a break
to spam through has it managed to deny it
it's like they're just trying to stick it all the way
it has been stopped
they need to get back on it and they need to do it now!
oh my god
How did they win these rounds?
Crashies did great
Crashies did great. Oh man kayak would have been feeling bad after this round
This one is gonna carry on moving like that
Oh my god, I'm back to the second in it!
Navi, we're just about to set the history book straight and instead we're onto OT!
Big round, man. Big rounds for Crashes.
Okay, two chances to end it.
Moment to be 0-28 to 10 still.
All pass and stuff for Navi over towards B.
And Fnatic might be going for one of their rare fast rounds.
Barrier, Barrier down, fast round!
Wait, what if you descend and they never do it?
Yeah, that's a marvellous thing.
They take back the silence, they realize that all the showers had the opposite, they had the TP also.
Ah, this one is weird.
If this Tevron shoulder is good, it's a mine.
I think we got both from Molly over towards Shows once the smoke goes.
Oh, okay. Now do a nice shot on this one. Now both of you can just use Molly for the spike yourself.
For an 8 round there as well. I mean they count the Qs surely.
that means even more delay even more damage shells almost gone down to it and then the salvos come in
a great reaction on this one.
like great it's such a nice reaction from the double TP over to what Shao was right to call them take back the site
very good reaction
it's crazy this part we find ourselves in
a mid-round adaptation
to switch over to the back of the site
as you said I'm sure Navi came into that guy
We've got the element of surprise
Okay, that's probably why I called the fast round from the three barrier. It'll make sense
The only way to change up his golden style
And sociable already claiming the first life a step in the right direction another routine needed for Navi
Sociables
The flashback the other direction other people have expected this deep control to have been claimed
He's definitely being careful of it that second flash I said he's always been good to hold the
He's holding the anger, but lost the fight folks that will take a really long stand
You just gonna
it doesn't go quiet just yet boaster i think this would be a play to remember
a play that would haunt angels or nightmares as he watches from the coach boots but
Deeth is on the first so much more deep than the other get along with a strike on the head
he has a mulling but it's in the wrong spot deeth no smokes is point the issue
but a shot to the head locks in another routine this game ain't done yet
Well the hard attacks continue. No one able to take that finishing blow. And the fact is
that they won this round off a millimeter of prowl. That was it. The tiniest one step
margins and that's hero winning the round. And it's also the worst player that you
could have missed. The guy who's 31 and 11 right now. The guy who is, he's making
Mark this year. He made a dent, I would say. Last year he was playing incredibly well.
But we were mostly talking about Rooksic as the guy. Now Rooksic has taken that mantle.
A chance for the coaches to talk once again. A tactical break.
It could make all the difference. As worth mentioning as well for Alpha,
you sat there looking across the stage. I heard you asked him to make up you.
Yeah, you're gonna break some more records today.
Well, he sat watching Hero in much less OTs than he did it.
Approaching that 33 kill record, he's two away.
The way he's playing, he might just smash that record today.
Alpha's gonna watch his own record get broken against him.
That stuff, well, if he keeps up the game.
I think I have the mask on the series.
I feel that Alpha had the series record.
Pretty sure it was kill record at 33.
It's the kill that's the kickoff.
Do that post again, Otto?
Okay, that's the I'm sure I'm sure so sure we're gonna see that I'm not like yeah
No, no, no, I'm like these two historically kickoff this year this year kill leader or kill max k max as it's called
It's alpha and Zeus from the same map from the Corode 1816 if I'm not mistaken
There's a hell of a long game, but here we are heroes to away from
Pushing that bar up maybe more than a few notches depending on how long this one goes
Yeah, the teacher could do that from this.
I mean, it's more just him fraggin' out heavy, but...
Pass again.
You don't have a backup plan for this, they're just going.
Oh, that move moves nuts.
Oh, that's nice, back to sign.
Oh, that's nice, bro.
This guy was cool to watch.
Dude, one around from here, and that was...
Yeah, he definitely got a video here, and that was lovely.
Not just in the head-to-head of organizations which stands for most of the fanatic players who lived through that, it stands for the IGL on Navi.
So Navi going up for Navis.
That's gonna be brutal. One of these teams will hit that lower bracket after a close-four match.
After opportunities taken
We'll have to march through
The teams that come up to beat them
It's not gonna be an easy task to make it all the way to the end and only have one opportunity
The Navi
This is another attempt to close
It's the off-guard lost CPUs
Double-drawing hair.
Keep an eye on the B-Jill.
Hey guys, must be pretty tempted to take that TP, surely?
Yeah?
Yeah, he rocks it. He rocks it to open up a big site on his own.
Nah, I don't think he had those three pretty far away.
The deep it goes as well to walk through that choke point leaves you on a sliver of HP
Because you barely cross the door without going down to one
They're going to have to challenge him and they have to deal with rucksack limited vision barely any health
They hurt the shop. Oh at least I know that's rucksack down a chance
Crashies
So good on the be retax
Crashies is saving them every single time. Half a battle to Ruxucka is just INCREDIBLE.
Oh look at those shots.
That can drop the stack.
Yeah, Angel must be annoyed there because he's getting an entry in there, so then hitting
up short.
Like if he wanted to play, you want to give him extra second, you feel he's supposed to
cancel on this.
Completely different that one shot fired it gave the game away
Oh, yeah, they keep playing
Weird swing
I like the swing more than great.
Wait, you just double-sature?
Oh, would it not be nice to have a satchel right now?
Well, there goes my Jordan Springstone.
this one nice and slow he's giving up the control but alpha here waiting to
strike is just a moment he's holding on the lonely and sociable manages to drop
him numbers thinned out somewhat the Molly left to play with their
promoter it's gonna go halfway up already there the Molly last it already
get fired out they got it half precious time she's gonna have to do it all
he's got his work cut out for three bodyguards defending his
Very nice, mum.
The body shot, I'd say the body shot.
They're long and funny
one retake with two seconds to spare through a vipers pit
the one before that with 0.9
they've been cutting it close but each time
they've managed to bring backgrounds and Kayak while
we didn't see him have the operator the last time that he was caught by sociable
he's taking a risk, no shields
first time
to escape this one oh boy man with the no armor as well how's the line
That's sick.
Around the world, TP.
With the door closed!
Door closed and the molly team go through!
He gets the kill at the end.
That's sick.
Can't close out this game another one. Yeah, give us some more OTs in this for now be this is gonna be so crushing
Man, they've been so close and after
Yeah, they should be using the TPs a little bit later
It's hard though
Both teams are kind of mixed up the pace
A number of rounds they've been so close to connecting that victory
This is a game that feels like it could be theirs.
That slow start on Split, how it could have been a 2-0.
But instead, back to square footing, yet again,
Fanatic on the attack, AWP on Kayak, AWP on Fielu.
It's the same old story and a very, very slow approach
for that exact reason.
Both teams being very cautious about giving away
that opening pick.
But the problem is when you do that,
you've got to kind of telegraph where you're going
or where you're looking for those picks with utility.
like here we see the prowler put through a bathroom and then an immediate focus on
the b side the idea be once they make noise over there hopefully felu pushes up
gets a bit curious in bathroom it can be dropped by kayak but this slow play it's
not luring any fights I mean they know who they're up against know that with
the fake pressure it's gonna pull the rotate over after they dodged so deep
point towards shot. This is a good skydog though. Skydog clears long road, they can go back.
He's a little hesitant on it.
Oh! That sucks on this.
first chance at victory this would be such a fantastic woman
can pull off a miracle the first comes easy just pulling out crazy runs
that cash down as well the player above surely he doesn't expect an alphea will make sure
this turkish brother gets no further now fanatic have a chance to close
will they falter at this hurdle i mean it's been a back and forth affair
attacking rounds defense surprise i normally saw him
Normally when we get to this point Tom, it's like well both teams are really good in the defense first he do an attack
That's the team that wins. There's been back and forth. There has been no predictability to this
Off the stand up now yet another round number 32 of bind
Navi now have to fight for survival after being knocking on victory store multiple times throughout this map
I mean many map wise sure it's looking great no one really does this though
more bends, more twists and turns in the tail, both his mollies gonna start things off burning
back there, and he's gonna have to have gone the way of Navi
the advantage there is for now
but the spike bumps on a plate are taking thread and we love that even took Rooks
identified
oh my god, Raze Nado towards Scythe and he forced him into the span
they take the TP and they kind of think that someone might have been close until
they had those 3 TP's
He's a great fader, I guess he has so much space on this huge shot.
I think I'm high HP as well right now.
He makes such a bold play.
Oh, not this guy again.
Not this guy, imagine.
It's the great boss against the guy that's been saving, Pananak.
that tall box it's all gonna come down to the time
oooh that's a lovely shot man
that's a lovely shot bro
dude crash is in overtime
crash is in overtime that was legit
that was legit
one chance was all fanatic needed
to close out this game what an insane way
to keep themselves in the middle
they better show that shawty can show it was so good
take the team one away from being in the middle bracket final
and to send Navi down
to just one life
it's got to be bittersweet for Navi
they come so close to besting their rivals
but
close as they may have been
that lower bracket still welcomes them
this squad
a new IGL with shaw angel
in the coaching booth
but the same old result
a series and a half to take them ever closer to Santiago, but there are still many more
steps to come.
It really wouldn't be a fanatic series without a comeback, but for Navi to be the one steaming
it was the real surprise.
They showed a great face out here today.
The technicals as well as the breeze, which looked incredibly strong, fanatic didn't
have answers for it.
So that's a lot of good signs for that lower bracket run, but that is where their
story goes, is fanatic, press on forward.
A wonderful start to the show. Plenty more games coming your way, but before we get into the next match-ups
Let's keep talking about this one. Ginny stand-up by with Vakash down on the stage
Satchek show. Vakash, that was definitely a match to be watching today. How are you feeling after that one? How's your heart rate going?
I'm feeling good. Be shaky with stress too, but yeah, actually good game
Oh, man.
They come back, we come back, and it's a good match at the end.
It was a good match, very entertaining, very much a tug of war.
But I want to go back to the fact that you guys do find yourselves like in these positions
where you're in the advantage and you kind of lose it and you bring it back.
What's the mental and the coms like for the whole team when it's kind of like this yoyoing effect on the maps?
I mean, there is no yoyo, I guess.
i guess like we just like keep the head up uh we don't give up and we just like give everything
even if it's like the round is closed big stressful we ending the round at 10 second maybe
and no we just like don't give up so let's talk about you on breeze because uh
you don't want an a and two you on breeze on the jet you guys go for a more of an
aggressive composition how was it to have your jet here in tier one are we gonna see it again
I have no clue if we're gonna see it again, but this is my first release on VCT and
I'm not fully happy about my jewelies turn the first game, but
Still good. We have some rep to the world review and we'll see
Yeah, I mean then the next match that you have is either gonna be vitality or GX
Do you have a preference in regards who you want to go up against?
Normally I have no preference but there is like two ex-fnatic in Vitality so I will save Vitality for the boys and
Just Vitality. There really is a chance for you to prove yourself there. Yes, sir. All right. Well, thank you so much for your time
Congratulations once again. Thank you so much. We're gonna be heading over to a break and we'll be back to dissect this down and with our second
workshop update Vitality
Dude this was fun. This was fun
Next game should I mean I'm not saying it's gonna live up to that game, but it should be a bit a really close one
Oh, I made that's fast, bro
They're really nice shot and vitality against giant X I
Have vitality bar I'm not super convinced
and next seem to be getting better
okay I'll be back in a little bit
Let's take it all behind
Take a bite of the nation
Won't you go by my side
And show my appreciation
I want you to get with me
I'll miss your body baby
No, I cannot believe
They chose to sing for later
Which you and I could retrieve
I want you here with me
Be my lover, be my, be my
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Welcome back everyone to VCC EMEA kickoff we're joined with Alpha after a very great series
I mean earlier when Vika shook his hand out it was literally shaking can we do a test
Okay, you're a bit sweaty.
Yeah, I watch my face, man.
Oh, it's this guy.
I watch my face.
You stressed?
I'm a bit stressed.
I felt like after champs parrys.
I felt stressed first time.
I don't know why though, because I just, I just don't like OT game.
I mean, you're not used to being ahead and then having a team come back to you.
Yeah, usually.
Is there something going on there?
Yeah, usually we come back and now we get to come backs and I also tell them the game as well like
If you guys want to be champions you should close the maps you can't get come back because
Because we are the team like we want to get some trophies and stuff especially world trophies
And if we get to keep coming if we get keep come back like that
I think we are not going to be able to be in trophy. So we have a big world that we are there
Is it mainly you that's been like hoping to see much in those moments?
I think everyone is doing good job, but I'm the main energy in the team because I think my energy is too big that I can't
Spread everyone in the team. So basically like when the team is low energy, I just usually like have them
You're talking about being able to close maps out without having your opponent make comebacks
I mean you haven't really had a chance to go back and watch the game
But from being in that position, what do you think the biggest issues are right now?
I think biggest issue when you get come back everyone is getting stressed and stress makes you more mistakes
Like normally we don't do these things on products
But when it comes to the official and when we're getting stressed, we just do the peaks
We don't do it or when we beef sometimes we shouldn't beef normally like we don't weep in 10 of 10
But we just weeping off because yeah, we have stress. I mean mini had a very very big question about breeze
specifically he was really sad when he didn't see you on a certain age in there
yeah I thought you'd be on you were on stage before and then we all knew that
you probably would be on stage today and I was like I'll first put on challenge
chamber and then we're like wait they're playing chat they're playing your
rule but Alpha's not there what your thoughts? I think this is interview with me now
it wasn't my decision to play Viper, I'm joking I'm not flaming him but I think I wanted to play Viper
Because I think besides your touch, I think Vegash played too many times Duelists in the past, and he used to play Duelists.
But the Viper is kind of like a lurker agent, I think when I'm alone, when I'm not with the team, I can do a better place.
And I think his op is better than mine, so you want your Duelists to play more op.
So yeah, I think that's the main reason.
I think there was an interesting stat though, was there not, about the maps that you had won on Raze versus the maps that you had won on other games?
So the maps you've won, I think you've won 4 and not 0 when your time raised.
And then you're like 2 to 4 when you're not playing Raze.
But what you're saying is that this is more about Jett.
So you can't play Raze on Breeze on this day.
I think it's general.
In the future, I might just be the center of play
and we might put back Raze as well in the future like I'm talking maybe.
But not for now because we don't have time right now.
But if you have a...
No, don't do that.
If you have a big time, we might do that, but for now I'm just going to Q-braid because I think I might be one of the best racers, so I will just keep it like this.
Very self-aware and very humble as well. I like that. I also want to talk about the upcoming matches because of course this one was very much back and forth and it dragged about.
We've seen it happen in the past as well. You now have either Vitality or GX that you're going to be going up against. Both of these rosters have also shown promise.
Are you worried? Do you have a favor? Let's start there.
And my favorite is Giants, because Vitality is playing with someone who is standing until
Sionnara comes.
And Giants didn't change any roster from last year.
I think they are a better opponent, but I would like to play versus Fnatic Academy
as well.
Wow.
So, let's see.
Let's see.
I mean, that's the next matchup that we have coming up.
You're talking about GX and having time together.
Do you think that's something that you guys would also have benefited from?
more time on your end yeah I think we have more time now and especially we have
off days which we didn't have a lot like that we just work straight ten days I
think because we didn't have like any time to do off so I'm really happy that
we won and we have a big gap now so we can have a bit off and chill out yeah you
can watch this game as well and you know see how that's going well I want to
thank you so much for sitting down with us and having a little bit of a chat
because we also have to talk about the next game and you said you think
So, guys, I want to have your perspective on starting with you, Billy, in regards to the Vitality GX matchup.
Who do I think is going to win? Are we going straight?
Yeah, absolutely. That's where I'm going.
I think Vitality have a lot to prove, right? I think they need to bounce back from the loss that they had the other day.
And I think GiantX are starting to build up a bit of momentum now.
So, in my opinion, it's going to be a big test for Vitality in that sense, by Alpha.
So yeah, I think as well when we think back to some of the members that are on each side here,
Gynax kind of became that gatekeeper team last year, especially when you think back to the champsron,
that BBL Esports almost went on when I'm thinking about Pal, Yampian, Profec that are on this team.
There's a bit of a grudge match brewing here, I think, potentially.
I think that's a perfect setup.
See, I knew you would be able to handle that question.
Thank you, Billy, but the grudge match is really what we're going to be watching about here.
We've already touched upon both of these rosters over the last couple of weeks, talking about their strengths, their weaknesses, but I feel like this really at this point is the ultimate test for both of them.
They have had easier opponents, quote-unquote, many that are in that lower bracket that they were able to beat, but once they have kind of had a little bit of pushback, they now find themselves here.
Yeah, I think that both teams, like this day in general is the day of the teams that we expect to do very well, and getting to that little bit of like rep situation.
like they have, they've now got footage to kind of come away
and improve V-Con week, and I think we have seen that
a little bit from Fnatic, and now it's time for these teams
to basically be the same.
Like Vitality last week, they had a lots of odd review.
Let's talk about the odd review then from Vitality,
because going up against VBL, I think there were
certain expectations of how Vitality was gonna perform
in general, how this roster is going to be
performing Billy, so what do you think,
was their biggest downfall?
It was ugly to be completely wrong.
it was it was pretty ugly I think when we actually look at the map he told in
general as well going into that game last week from Vitality having to go up
against BBL on Haven it's been historically one of their strongest
maps for the longest time I think by the time you go into a base you're a bit
mentally boomed and I think that some of the players specifically Dericka
really struggled individually when it got to a base as well. Yeah I think Dericka
definitely a talking point. It feels like he's still trying a bit too hard to be super
aggressive in moments where he doesn't need to be. Like, he's not like 20-21 anymore where
he literally needs to carry this team. Some of the tendencies where he's a little bit too
aggressive works very well against teams like Ulf, because they're just gonna let him
shoot him. Whereas against the better opponents, I think at times he just needs to be a little
bit careful about that aggression.
Yeah, I think as well, in general when we're looking at Dorca specifically, last
week was not the strongest of performances and we highlighted him as more of like the spearhead in
terms of success at Vitality Prefighting and of course this roster has a lot of praise and also
in general all of the people in this roster are decorated veterans and they have like so much to
give and the question then for me is without like pinpointing on individuals what really was
the biggest struggle for them? I think honestly they a BBL last week came in with a really good
good game plan and I think that DBO's aggression they couldn't handle that well on Haven and
then when it came to a BIS honestly they picked like Vitality picked a BIS but the setups I
was seeing looked a little bit peculiar to me. They looked very well intentioned but to
me it didn't seem to be the correct read on the map. Like they were playing a heavy
middle setups against a team that you know are probably just gonna rush into you on
extra money is and so I'm very curious to see about that going forward and the
veto the veto didn't seem to get that much value and then way later it seems
to get much value in terms like their comfort so a lot of questions on that
a bit okay and we actually have an interview as well with their career ready
in terms of like the performance last week against BBL so we'll catch up with
him and see what he thought about that
Dirk welcome a very important mash-up today as you're finding yourself in
in this middle bracket.
I know we're looking at the matchups for entertaining,
but we got to do the interview, right?
So walk me through last week specifically with Vitality,
like what happened?
I mean, nothing really special.
I think BVL played really well.
I think we had two good matches against Orphan Liquid.
I feel like we did a lot of mistakes still,
but we didn't pay as much attention to it
because we won and we were feeling confident,
I think we are kind of just exposed a little bit and then it was just easy to
see like what's actually going wrong and then fix it and like shift focus on that
and I think for this week preparation we like I got really excited because I
feel like we actually fix a lot of problems so now it's like really
excited to get into this match now. That's really good to hear so it's kind
of like that wake-up call that you needed to make sure that you're
looking at some of these smaller mistakes. You're talking about
preparation and it making you very excited for this week. Anything that you
focused on individually that you think will make the biggest difference?
Just, just kind of like, I don't know how to say it, keeping distance a bit.
Like, you know, like I throw the picks sometimes and so I just basically do this.
I think just playing more with teaming is giving that energy and just kind of like having fun but doing it all together.
I think it's like the most important, of course every team says it.
But for me, just like again getting excited because we work on so many things as like for playing together and stuff
All the players like gave good feedback. So we'll see how it works now and I'm just really excited for it
Okay, you're having it up pretty well. Good job on that when we're talking about like fixing these smaller mistakes and like things that you can
Do individually and maybe you sometimes get a little excited and you over peak
How are you making sure that that translates from scrims to the server because a lot of times
teams will say like yeah we focus on this in scrims but then the issue sometimes
is like the disconnect what are you guys focusing on there I mean in scrims it
goes through that you just you deliberately kind of acting that okay
now I don't need to do anything like we got that one is not I don't need to do
anything extra that's one but I think for me it's also just again playing
with teammates and knowing like I feel like when you get like humbled by
someone in an official kind of thing like maybe I should not do that more and
then you just naturally chill more and you kind of like know what mistakes not to
make anymore I think we just had a good talk to the team and just like everyone
kind of like locked in and is ready to play man especially me I think I had a
good week for myself so I'm feeling confident. Alright well I'm looking forward
to seeing that on the server thank you so much for your time good luck
with your much today and we're gonna be hanging over to you guys. Alright a
a lot of hype and a lot of expectations sitting here coming out from the side of
Durga saying that they focus on a lot of things he's individually also aware from
some of the mistakes that have been committed. Billy if anything this is
promising. Yeah I think so I think as well we need to like remember that this
is a new roster that's been put together for Vitality. They are playing with a
stand-in as well when it comes to Unfake so yeah I think give them a bit of
time having that upset it's better now rather than later. I like the way you
reflected on all of that it seems like the kind of response you will get
from someone who is as experienced as Derricka, like not panicking about last week individually
and knowing what kind of things he needs to improve on. Like I said before, I said some things
and it seems like he acknowledged all of that in the interview, so I think that that just,
you know, just talks to Derricka's professionalism. Yeah, it also kind of speaks to the professional
in general from the side of Vitality because coming through and saying like, yeah, we won
the first two maps and we got overconfident and didn't really look at the small little
mistakes because we got away with it and this was the wake-up call that they needed so great for
them that they aren't that middle bracket and not in that lower bracket because they still have a
little bit more of that comfortability but just to further highlight a little bit of struggle
that we were seeing from Durka when's the last time we've ever seen these stats come out Billy
it feels evil to have this kind of graphic shown for Durka but it also just shows like
does anyone know why this isn't hosting anymore i think they're just trying different
I think that today will be a good test for him to be able to bounce back and show that
he goes beyond just the statistics as a dualist.
No, he's human and you know at the end of the day you can't get 100% every single day.
When it's dominated by just a couple of people they can just carry on putting their um,
from the side of vitality a lot of promise coming into today and then I want to flip
The ride's never been someone that accepts that to be honest.
What's going on there?
League, they've definitely got rid of big names all the time before when that happens.
Is that what you expect from a team that went to international?
I think realistically for me, I have this weird kind of narrative about a team that doesn't make changes.
I rarely see them continue to progress in a linear fashion.
And I think that GiantX's goal this year should be to maintain...
trucks doing CS stuff yeah she's done quite a bit now
Spook over the tier 1 thanks so much for the 19 mums
Thank you, thank you
I think the CS talent got a lot to be honest
At least when I was there they were getting a lot
I can only imagine it's gone up
I remember doing days where people were getting 10 times this what I was getting
for like a lot less work.
It was a lot of money in the CS.
It was the last map good, yeah really good.
Yeah I mean even before that they were getting a lot less what I mean.
able to set him up. There's a really good sign for this giant X roster and what's to come for them.
The only thing I would flag is that I feel like our last year particularly recently was very like
one week he'd be plus 20 and the next week he'd be minus. And so it was like...
Crashy's just ruined my day. So he really took over that over time.
Really positive one week in advance.
So I think this week and whilst we progress through the better games quote unquote
I want to see if that remains true or if he's going to step up into that performance that was
It feels like in that sense you're kind of disagreeing with what alpha mentioned earlier where he said because just hasn't made any changes
They have more time together and therefore more favorite
I think their their floor should know how much CS compared to Overwatch League was playing on his big box and not entirely sure
like you see it with
not entirely sure
Is it doesn't just go from we know how much the Overwatch League actually paid?
I imagine I was a lot and we're gonna go further
I think that, you know, they made changes mid-season, they got a little bit of a honeymoon, I'd say, albeit that they did play very well.
And I think that coming into a new year, it's a question about motivation.
Like, are they still as hungry as they were when they made those changes and grinding for champs?
Yeah, I think that's what I was going to pick up on there is something that we need to tell you.
They picked up Ruby, Aura, and Footclist when they went into stage 2.
They had that run going into champs, so realistically, they might have had a chance.
I'll spread on the slideshow. Yeah, I mean, maybe they'd say...
I'd be surprised if it was the same as CS, but...
Maybe, maybe it's more.
In the beginning, they were just far money-round, huh?
Show us what he's made up and maybe get a little bit of revenge. I'll be pretty much in the
Pretty much in the thing about these two IGLs is that test in the morning, you know coming into the game
It's a false positive and we have to then eventually
There's like us an optic effect. I have to go walk down
I'll get checked again
These fragging IGLs in the sense that they can put up the numbers when the rest of their team aren't following through
So yeah, it's a really nice head-to-head
Yeah, I think it's really nice to see cloud back at that level like cloud is one of those pairs historically
We're talking as one of the best in the shares in the region and I feel like when he turns to IGL the numbers dipped a little bit
And that's kind of expected
So if you can continue to continue this up, then that's this is like prime cloud whilst also IGL in which is kind of
Yeah, it's a crazy thing to see that you can state your private IGL
Because we've seen a lot of times where players step into the IGL in rule and kind of fall off
So for them to continue this office right by the decision isn't on breeze
What are you saying such a fun expectations when it comes to I can't imagine sticks like that for a long from map Vitos
if we're expecting something new today because we've seen some changes coming
through at least composition-wise from the side of Fnatic we've seen a little bit of
innovation and as you know Durica mentioned they worked on a lot of things
do we think the map pool falls into that category? Yeah I think so I think like
obviously when you're prepping for each week you're thinking of your map pool
in terms of composition changes I don't see either of these teams really
moving away unless we think about that abyss from Vitality potentially some
changes there if they were going to play that today other than that though.
I have it in my Veto that I think the Trinex might take it against the Viper
His IGN also includes micromanaging players in board specific utils
Yeah
And sometimes you can get players that will be able to just do that on their own
But you can kind of see it when the Natic get like new players, the boss is normally
micromanaging them
Then as it goes on, you get to the team that's switched on.
So you can have people in your team that take over certain roles to make your life
easier also.
You can rather have the smartest player in the world or the best aimer.
So no man I think you'd be happier leave us to be honest
You would probably say squad is playing for Valorant
Every time there's no crowd
And with that we're ready to head
Vitality against GX in perfect. I know what he does
We already touched upon a little bit in regards to whether or not we are expecting some changes in the map pool
But it is going to be a bit breeze and haven abyss from GX not surprising here Billy
They do have a yeah, it's not to play on yeah
And I mean many you were the one that kind of suspected that giant X would pick that into vitality here as well
I think when you think back to that game last week where vitality did end up losing to them
it didn't look great for them despite picking input so yeah intriguing to see giant eggs play that hard
um yours again mate thank you for doing that bro i appreciate you
is that kind of composition that giant eggs was playing that bridge teho i don't know how we felt about it
yeah but it wasn't as good as yours but yeah i don't mind it it is it's fairly one-dimensional
and approach they're gonna be targeting those sites on the attack side so it's gonna be down to vitality
to answer that on the defense breeze honestly that cash is bad over and off
Sure.
I really like the way they...
Look at that side of Emperor.
...really suits them with the double-jewel design
that they've got going right now.
Yeah, not something we've seen from GX either,
and that kind of leaves us with our final map,
and that is going to be Haven.
Haven, would like your thoughts on this one, Billy?
I mean, it's a pretty standard map.
It's been in the pool since literally day one,
so both of these rosters should feel very comfortable going there.
Yeah, I have to agree.
I think as well though,
this is a little bit of a sore spot for Vitality,
considering that they lost against DBL last week too.
last week too, not to be a complete dumpster on my balcony, but the fact that they get two
maps in here that they lost is not ideal. So yeah, I want to see the lessons that they
would have learned from that.
I think that's really important, it's just that like, BBL looks fantastic and it's a
very good game to go away from and learn what kind of mistakes they're making. And
what did BBL really punish in terms of the maps here?
Yeah, and also in that regard, they have both, it doesn't mean that they have
Play raise in the future alpha wants to play full time senty that does not sound like him
He spent two years complaining with his full time senty
Why are you not being sent now?
Yeah I'm not sure how much I believe in that
Oh no they didn't want to leak strats?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I never knew that I didn't know through that one coming
But I want to bring it back now to our first map, of course, and that's a conversation we're going to have at this.
When we're looking at it from the GX perspective, we already touched upon how excellent it is for Vitality, not so much against VBL.
So do we think there are going to be any compositional changes here to make up for the fact that the match against VBL was 13A?
The obvious change would be Dirk is wailing, and so that's going to be the most interesting thing.
It's like, do they... has Dirk said, look, I don't want to do this anymore, can we just please put this on?
I'm comfortable, the obvious answer here would be something like a jet.
Not you and your jet.
What?
You and your jet.
I mean, I don't like jet personally, but I think it's a different thing.
And the answer is no.
They've said no, Dirk, you are going to continue playing Lele.
And we're going to be keeping our eye on the weather that would be a comfort.
He's spammed comp against.
So I think this map will answer a lot of your stuff.
Yeah, I think the Lele had a big interest for both teams here.
I think Kron on the veto as well kind of left a lot to be desired when we saw them play on a bit last week
So I'm intrigued to see how they play around that this time round
I think I'd already kind of touched on the breach in Teho on the other side as well
And how that's gonna play into this between utility too
Yeah, the interest actually from you giant X it feels more like an attack calm
But at the same time they don't have the soap so the operator once vitality goes that defense
I think it's gonna be really important against giant X
Did you really like the civics idea? Dude. But uh, many got my stuff confused right?
Cause I said on Placha that they have the best bind theory with Vito.
And then he just said it was for, he just said it was for a bit.
It kinda stitched me up.
get gas on the broadcast is on me man, can't earn me
I like vitality more, but it's more difficult to catch
okay so higher ceiling
higher ceiling
then bring the metro on this map
I mean bring not the metro on this map
I would say double control is the method
potentially we could see that ceiling come into play
but again that is if we're taking sword for gospel
do we want to do that
yeah I do struggle to watch shown
I don't say why not
It's a bad map pool in my opinion. You got a lot of teams that don't know how to play
um, pal, and you got a lot of comps that don't make any sense for a base.
Two maps that reach these regions pretty bad, it is kind of worrying.
Densimates, um, and probably the exception on a base and
EBL is to be the exception on pal.
Yeah, it's an absolute pleasure to be back. Some of us were a little more excited than
others, couldn't be patient. And well, it's great. You've come from the depths. You're
here and now you can tell us about the chaos. I just love Keele, but there's no Keele
here to talk about. So we'll talk about other stuff instead. We'll talk about how this
is a very important matchup because you look at GH, you look at Vitality and there's
a lot of history here. We have three master-steams at the moment.
I mean it's it's it's just amazing to be BL and then it's like who am I if it's the fags
I'm leaning towards vitality, but I'm more I've been they got some bad knocks on them
First setback on the VCT stage. How do they convince me a bit more helps? We've got giant X on defense
We've got vitality on the tank
And the real pain point is abyss they will begin on the attack side
Vitality need to prove that the BBL game was a one-off.
Should do both of these comms aren't great on a time.
Especially for that mehbite.
Vitality though, I will say, if they get over towards a side-date, should win that after-punch.
Because it seems Vitality only touching upon med and have already decided they want to group up and start to put pressure on E.
It's interesting already seeing GX have this heavy focus towards that area of the map.
Other than the B site immediately under threat.
It is just a drone out on a from unfaith probing towards this position where you can see what side
Have the TP set up looking for an opening jewel on Durkan feels damage, but finds nothing
Yeah, they look vitality get the full say GX almost all here you can see the
other guy is making as we don't meet with a strengthening double-dash here and then the trip shot him from here
Chip followed and slowed in top site. It's kind of crazy
deals with them handily
Still blowing up, he should have done enough that.
Alright, alright, now it's made easy for me, I'm being...
You've got to consider that GX because this is a team of some of the best veterans we have in the region
Speaking so much of those wind conditions that is exactly one way to beat it and as you're saying
Vitality went winless against GX in the last stage of the previous year, of course
It means a lot for a redemption for a girl BBL players within this side
Which would deny their first global event right at the gate in that lower final
So there is history here in this matchup.
There's a conversation about last year, but a conversation that we had about this year as well.
Me and you at Great Lenses, everyone else joined in the conversation about whether this GX team will be the gatekeeper side.
We have three people that can kind of hunt a lot of it.
Dash in, they spot a bit of a stack.
I'm going to come in. I mean, these guys are going to beat them here. They're going to have numbers
discussions around kickoff being that the teams that are succeeding are the ones which
where they smoke.
For them to smoke less to flood.
As you can see, there's a real group of players making their way towards this B site.
West side gets half a chance to make it on good terms.
But Durkan will strike first.
Yeah, isolated.
gonna be but GX looking to flood very quickly they're all out and ready to go
but I mean vitality getting through this with little to no problems
Spikes still not down but time getting low the body's being seen and I mean
the engagements not clean at all but... yeah at least they're all fighting together though
is the double up the room care I kind of like that it could be a way last one
and with four players left up standing as well this bonus is gonna be
looking pretty strong heading into the third round and really giving them
opportunity to kick on. It's great to see Berger back in form. Yeah, there are eco kills, but
with the whaler you are sticking your neck out a lot of the time. You're in an area of exposure.
No breach value. Yeah, so I mean some of the stuff is fast. Look if you want to pick it apart,
it should be salvo, salvo, stun. You said a stun at the same time as salvo, salvo.
Because you want them to dodge it fast, get into the open, then tank the stun,
and then swing this position from our the refract looks as if it is just going to
expire
and the attack side spins its focus towards mid for the first time and makes
westside no longer
yeah having to respect the utility put as well
this is nice from Vitality solo smokes comp and they create pressure over towards
middle we'll say the Vitality comp again can kind of do everything that they
want to do in my opinion it's much better than the giant x comp
Big Grand was actually great.
A lot of pressure middle, so if they do fake pressure later on, it's going to be easy with
this comp right, fake TP in terms of potentially getting here, and you can have a server recon
as well to make sure that the shul creates the crosshair mark.
But it's nice though, isn't it?
He pulls them over towards middle.
Yeah, and they don't expect them this close.
It's a great round from Vitality.
Oh, he wins that also.
Yeah, it's just lovely to watch them.
It worked out so well for them as well.
They should probably snow them all this, to be honest, but maybe miss the mark on that.
But they will also be going up against the low by eco, so maybe not wanting to use all into that and making this out wall farm them.
as you said very important for them to do so and just looking at how a macro has
been so far all really just a check in the box as far as we're concerned I
set up for Yampi maybe not fully developed but once encroached on the
site GX had little to no response I mean that seems to be the storyline for
past three rounds and I don't see it like it's very early on right but there is some worrying
things there in the sense that we don't talk about food and GX wanted to play for that
retake but vitality knew how they wanted to set up I mean if you're buying the new
run for this year and you're trying to tell who like we ruined it. You can see that's
happy right but there's game plan but the point I'm trying to say is GX wanted to
play double way and a shater he knows that the strength is going to be on the retake
So he will be drilling his team all week
Let's engage once you get
Yeah hello mate
You know, can't believe they just pick with
Can't believe they picked this map with his comp as well
What answers the GX have to try and marshal the situation?
Looks like a bit of aggression
Okay, straight up aggro, they have numbers in position to be able to react as well
Drone doesn't see anything
Really easy for Dirk to go in
Also got the eco on the gun as well
So they're saying that
It's just the three bodies taking it out
impossible retake with this
Silly, sure thing it should be an impossible retake with this, but
It wasn't there for a lot of it. Cheap it out in the left.
How many autos did I get for the next round is the real question.
Ooh, that's a big move.
Oh, it's a great jump.
What are they gonna...
How the fuck are you off-site here?
That's just like on the spike.
Got a line up of your shocks right here.
Oh, boys.
That's scary though, that's really scary.
Just a hatred of the guy.
Yeah man, the comp sucks though, it doesn't do anything good.
The G2 version of Euron server, you know Euron server is the main 2 that you have to have on this month.
that we can take a look at one which is pertinent with the context of last year as well is both
Yumpy and Cloud. The games highlighted from Yumpy's time on BBL, Cloud of course, kept
with the rest of this GX roster as they renew for 2026. Both former star players
still very much able to give you that X factor at times, but turned in game leader
in the last year and have made all the difference for that team.
Yeah, they really have and I think as well with the ampy he almost had like a great year as a whole
What does it feel as if for cloud? It was a strong split to and the question that we'll be asking of giant x
I think is what's that a one hit wonder split or are we actually gonna see them now?
Especially this one this one not great
This one's fine. It's also a question of solving the ideal bit of training. It does what you want on the map
that fit that on the GX side cloud individually the highest ADR of any non-Turkish player that was a
wild one we'll have to see um it could be kind of interesting when we switch sides again in theory
this is pretty good against this player who's always been good boy it won't be good next
He's just kind of contactually open, especially in this map.
Oh boy, you lot are lined up for this one.
You guys are lined up for that server all...
Yeah, get understandings from this inviteality.
Big buy-run for some Dante and Eco, they got all the ult's there.
especially when he's hitting shots like that GX so labeled in terms of trying to get back in
when they do they just hit chronicles cross here so to the other two only you're trying to tempt us
i had a worry or not i'm sorry it's a lovely snap all of the moment for the next round
i'll be vitality up to five you're a double jealous double smokes yeah i'd run the
run the gentleman's competition against bbl i felt like it was the difference between seeing
Cypher at such a high level with Kredwin and how he was playing his setup versus Avito that was sort of a passing grade, I suppose.
But here on the attack side and with the use of the ult, it's played to perfection.
Really liked how aggressive he wanted to get there, and GX just with no answers coming off the back of their timeout.
It's going to be an awkward buy for them to say the least to see if they can rebound early.
Double smokes, do they run? They run Brim and Astro.
It does, and with that, being straight after the giant X-Timeout is worrying for me.
Going to see, like, Pepson's ideas, hopefully, come end to the mix.
We're already seeing R thinking about the really ultimate NAMN trap.
On the angle early, but there's no one coming his way.
This is something that Vitality have to be receptive of.
We know in the BBL games at times it felt like they were getting run over.
Yay, insta-journalists with the ults.
Maybe then Astro.
By Tati at the moment.
Boneless rounds.
One over towards mid.
Maybe another round with us, you make another one towards mid?
Kind of like they're going for the reaction though.
watching up but I see move away explain snowball is in like we're not what I'm
saying with the snowball it's like a snowball downhill get bigger and bigger
and bigger and bigger and should they choose a momentum that's just like what
a pistol into a bonus does but this game's all about two economies one
economy two economy and alts
you start off well and then you just carry on
And behind enemy lanes and giant X have more clue
Jump
Yeah, they look uh, they look nice for the rings around gx and that is such a well set up round as well
Again, they sort of make it look like it's kind of a beef egg through main
All the while Durka and Profec just creeping up through link and GX of course sleeping at the wheel
Prodacal either matter pick up the pieces on the back lines
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. It's just lost into that vitality super steam at its best
strengths
It's calling from the amputee
Looking over to the GX side. What do they do? How do they respond? It's another round where they're
Yeah, yeah, I'm peace rifles and yampi has bought a catalyzing that
Eco-pharma gun again. Go and disrupt what vitality want to do because for the most part
She has been really passive and allowed vitality to default and take the space that they want to
I've not really seen the fate that I'm used to expect from a team that's fundamentally sound as GX
Preparation definitely a factor
Mentioned at the start how we are getting repeat maps here, and that's just going to favor the vitality review process
Oh, yeah, I'm P1 to the Zed for GX and their game against heretics both of this haven't shown there as well
Oh
Does find grubby early the insert and a and this is even called the attention of fliklas who's heading in the wrong direction leaving only
Yeah, this is nice
That's hit in the shops for gx no rifle recovered that is the one asterisk on the play and when he looks for more
He will not be rewarded for his efforts
How they getting everything man? It's actually pretty nice to watch.
Oh my god, we're actually going to see JNX go for a second Tamo because we're going to have to see them change up like we see them.
You can see the way they come in, where they are.
It's just not working. Yeah, I mean, JNX on this map posting a 2-0 record at this point in time.
And when you think of what their strengths are, honestly, the defense has looked good.
Nipson clearly fuming with what he's seen so far, but it makes sense.
Sometimes you do have to invest both timeouts into the half to recover all you can.
I would say you'll see a switchbox.
What one year and I kick off on your bill. How impactful he is as a controller
Yeah, there's a lot of players I think in the league that have only joined in just the last year or so as rookies that have already surpassed that
Sociable kayak of course a couple that spring to mind immediately. Yeah, but they're in the front lanes
This guy's meant to be played on the back lanes through
And I have to say the improvements to his astra as well, of course have only helped support that
but here's the big all-important round for giant X the change in setup features
our as operator as a focal point up to the bookcases through middle already
trying to throw everything they can at vitality
now shun prayers and so say the V mean cloud knows about the TP though so it
It doesn't seem to be because he's committed towards the back seat of the Ramp on Steen and Heaven
thinking that I could possibly come through
where four bodies are thoughtful and it's going to be the spectators with three bodies outside of it
I'm not even going to call the count numbers mate
because I'm just leaving
Scottish education system in full force
Wait, thanks
It's certainly served the vitality well so far
It's Arab, does find the opening pick
It's a very quick response and it's all out of them.
Oh, Revenio, you've been absolutely owned, mate.
It fell for the fate.
Oh, it's nice looking, Clown.
He could be top? Ah, it doesn't even recount him.
Yeah, it's uh, I mean top of this bike, Dirk, all Tricon goes in and they all swam.
Astrosarq for the fast tap.
Oh, the fake smoke with the Recon.
Oh, that was nice.
Oh, it's nice to watch.
Good Astrum, that was good.
to GX
Spent and still not around
The game plan is just flawless. If you want to talk about the vitality shows what shows the improvement
That is what we to do come out eight rounds flawless. That's the same thing. It's absolutely sensational stuff right now
There's not only just the game plan as well nice
Come on
The pilot is going to see you, it's the end of a juicy levelling up his wheel.
It absolutely is.
Westside could do with one hell of an upswimple here.
It's incredible.
Torderforce active.
The one big talking point of the round from the GX perspective.
Because at what point do things start to get better for them?
The spike founded in his B direction.
It's just a drone for now and as soon as it spots him out you're expecting...
you're expecting
a move to be made
goes on to the radar for now
like the house that pushed on me as well starting to
envied vitality space
quick recall confidence on this
yeah and when they want to hear that you can put his trip down
keep it away they hit the trip so
Oh man.
It's so nice though.
Oh man.
That extra speed is no beautiful work from much as a comp diff by time to him really good
blossom on the double dual list with
The thin falling into that position
We have known him for an initiator in the past and it's gonna be enough to get them around here
I have to throw in the towel
Yeah, then I mean trying to keep something as well and to the next drone get that corner me at least a little bit
I can't believe we're at the point now, we're starting to see it for GX, like that's in
the potassium benefit, the kind of good parts, at least there is something to look at, because
for the most part I'm really struggling to see the differences that they're making,
right, what's the changes that they're doing here. I mean, again, I'm asking, I need to see
a little bit of aggression, a little bit of something. Absolutely. Like, I see just
Steamrolling right now. Yeah, I mean we've seen
I don't take main space as well, right? Supported by some utility, but for the most part like I've not seen like a full boost or like a full force
hitting somewhere that vitality
Excellent, Astra is very rare. Um...
Get up, sit up, deep somewhere.
This may just be the usual opportunity to do it.
I mean, Omen was messed up for so long that
Definitely some people switching over having art time, also like a lot of the teams have
like controls that maybe won't always play controller, like Gen.G, like a good example.
Pretty easy to play on an almond but the Astra, and like to see a good Astra is pretty
odd.
this is so uncharacteristic over
partnership
just using movement
get out of there
for another swing at it
vitality look like they're happy to give him one
it's good to add as
continuously taking his chance continuously
This is going to be drone, drone is in trouble.
It's faster.
Oh, it's desperate.
Yeah, he's going to heal up for him.
I was going to say that maybe the Kron should be playing as Utota.
Make sure the Kron is...
Oh nice shots from him.
There you just did it.
There we go, nice run man.
Du Kron is farming bro, 17-4.
I don't know what's been going on in the scrims, I think in the scrims, I guess there's so
So many teams that have a misunderstanding of this map in EMEA, they like play against
each other with both of their bad comps that they think are good because obviously it's
like a close game on their winning.
So I think because there's like 5 teams that don't understand the map, they all think
they're actually doing good when actually they're all doing like insanely bad.
Two wrongs make a wrong.
But it seems like the two wrongs make kind of two rights because they think they're doing okay in its close.
But you would think that they would play against the teams that have the good comps and just get wrecked.
And then normally what happens is people would just steal that.
But maybe it's just too many teams in the MEA that have bad comps.
The misinformation, yeah dude, the misinformation just goes crazy, everyone then thinks they've got good comps.
They're just hating because you're not in their screens? May, I mean, hating because I have to watch comps that I know lose before the game started.
Oh god they can't even win this one. They should have won this one too far though.
Holy man, devastating for them. West Comp for the year so far. I promise you there's
more teams in EMEA that have worse comps than the giant X comp. That's the problem.
Don't have a worse comp than this. Hate to say it, but liquid have a worse comp than
this.
Ah, who else is a bad comp in EMEA than this? The two woman. Oh, they're so close. 0.05.
We are the Na'vi comps pretty bad, what's the heretics comp, heretics comp can't be that bad.
any further vitality looking to really send our way through meds and have shown the strengths
and how dangerous they can pose towards the GX defence.
Now the heretics comp is fine, they have a spam cycle.
They cannot get settled whatsoever in the positions.
Three guardians and a judge.
Somehow I feel like this is the best opportunity.
The GX might get shot here and there that lands.
not cleared could be the difference and I need all the luck they can get vitality are swiftly
marching towards this beside and we're saved I'm gonna be working to hold it down and successful
source fast and unfaith comes through and he's the one to try and really come in me considering it
You know how we talk about the Etof farm up?
Yampi is good in so many outlookers.
I'm faking not really in a position where he can feel great about using his ult, but
Maybe we can't hold him there, see if we can focus on it.
I'm saw the salvo here.
Holy.
Someone get mixed well, it might be happening.
What about the mates comp? I think they're the best comp in this map.
Out of all the teams.
Like in other regions
It's only who started the no sova comp on this month, but
It's not smart
Your body knows a sense of victory sees when mind
gear ignite as one
Step into your zone. How can you never learn yampie out was a good question man?
should have um, forgot that time machine you're right
that 20-21 outlaw
yeah it's four teams man
What's a fanatic play on this map?
Probably a fanatic player team that makes sense.
Yeah, there you go.
sight spam or they play the vice which is
honestly could be okay
where the elephant in the room must be addressed and with only one round to play for here as far as
vitality are concerned we are staring at the very real possibility of a second 13-0 in the
EMEA partnership era. We have three of those last year, Kyra.
Um, you've won great Tony with the primer. Thanks so much for the two monsters.
Thanks so much, Tony.
And uh, I tell you what, you know who it was in that VCT 13-0 who was on the receiving end?
No, who was at the content? It was GX again, so.
They're gonna be hoping that GX doesn't repeat itself. As you know, it did look kindly upon them
as the year went on of course yeah but uh this is not the best start to the series
yeah i know when you pick the map as well the one that we see now and they are on the attack so
the emphasis is on the other side well that's a 12-no-one play but got info
yeah the doctor just needs to hold they should be pushing them with the refractors well so
So it's looking like this is a very real possibility now like this
They create pressure behind and then the old group up ready for the reaction that is most likely of them taking space
Still pass a pressure from behind
Actually
It happens.
At least they've probably changed their comp now though.
One way to speedrun it.
Dude, I thought we were going for the longest day today, but what did you say, though?
Um, Alcy, thanks for the tier one. Thanks for the three months.
you
I don't even let us celebrate a 30 now. How do you guys prepare to come in with a perfect
map? Nothing's perfect, that's for sure. As much as we're obviously very, very happy
with that one. There's still a lot of things that we tidy up on, but I will say a lot of
credit to Ben and to SLK as well for the system improvements that they've brought for this
week and really with the vision that they've had for nailing down a lot of the fundamentals.
We just went back to focusing on slightly different stuff. We had to develop our maps
a lot after we brought Unfaken and then we went back to just working on the basics
and actually funny enough when you let these guys do their thing and with a little
bit more attention on just making sure we're not overdoing stuff, making mistakes. Yeah,
they look pretty good. So yeah, credit to the guys I'm lucky to work with. And as you
know, someone like Chronicle is pretty good at playing the game.
A lot to digest there from pal, but great insight in regards to what it did focus on
to get this 30 know the first one kick off a lot to digest that coach confession was
It was yapping on and on and on!
If he was complaining though, he didn't let him celebrate a 13-0.
But I remember going just perspective in terms of like the fact that they went back to the fundamentals, developing their map pool.
Just letting the players do what they want to do, it seems like these are the three perfect...
Well, I think honestly the thing that I caught on was him talking about Scott and SLK.
And to me, those are the people who were probably coming in with the preparation.
And I was extremely impressed by the preparation set of things.
Not only the fundamentals, it felt like they knew exactly what was going on.
they knew exactly the subs giant x trying to run and how to counter them like there
was a round where they just like faked be and then went through a beast bit and
like nobody was watching the flank from Gen X at all it just felt very well game
plan yeah that's the thing when we were watching it we were trying to figure out
like is Yampi just calling like a master class or is it preparation I think from
looking at the rounds in more detail like we could kind of see that they
just know exactly where giant X are playing they know exactly what they're
doing and they know how to manipulate them up because it was a combination of
both yeah I definitely think it was a combination of both but you could tell
that vitality went super hard on the prep here yeah and that's also what we
wanted to see but they're also kind of over expected to see from vitality so
really great from them from Jeff's side of things unfortunately this is
another 13-0 to their name which not the greatest position to be in but let's
say in the positives because we're trying to be very positive today looking
up Profec specifically because he was 18-1. His first death was on round 12. I was watching
in anticipation thinking, oh my god, he's going to go the whole map and just not have
a death. Imagine! The way he was playing was just so, so well and I think that Profec
is someone that doesn't always get the flowers that he deserves. You can see here, he set
that VCT EMA KDA record with 18. So yeah, props to him for being able to set a record
and second year. Yeah, I mean, the Mia now has a new record to break. Good luck to everybody out
there because this was absolute master cloth and phenomenal to see. But even greater was a
sideline interviewer. He's like, I'm just better. Okay, you go, King. Exactly what he did. But
also made me laugh when you were like, how are you going to do this in the next month? And he
was bait. Like just bait my team. Perfect. Concise to the point, sticking to fundamentals.
Exactly what we wanted to see from them, but another player that was really doing great was Chronicle, I think, I mean, we can't go without actually praising this player as well.
Yeah, I felt like Chron last week had a decent performance and we didn't even speak about him this week because it's just like, we just expect that from Chron, like, just we can we can, he's gonna be this kind of player for them, but yeah, when he gets 360 ACS, I felt like we do have to kind of remind ourselves that he still is probably the GOAT.
Probably. Yeah, I think definitely.
Kind of to go and I think as well like the fact that he can fill up those kind of numbers on an agent that's relatively new to him
New to his agent pool is super impressive. So yeah, all all impressive bounce back from Vitality after what we've seen last week against VBL where it felt like a
Completely different team truly a little lost but seems like they've found their footing. GX however on the other hand
This is a team that has had a better record so to say
I didn't feel like they had like very one-sided games so far on kickoff, obviously until this point,
because the 13-0 is a big question mark.
So we also have a coach confession ready from Pipsin to see what he had to say about this one and the other match.
We haven't seen you play brief yet this kickoff. What can we expect from you guys on it?
I think you can wait five minutes, and you will see.
That's it.
I mean 5 minutes is how long that first map was so you know.
You just saying that about both coach confessions.
You know what?
I feel like they're obliged.
If I'm a coach I feel like I'm obligated to give.
You know.
A little bit of insider information.
They give us something.
Like give us something to like,
I mean he gave us a great joke.
That's true.
To be frank, Pipton, Pipton last week when he didn't get 13 there,
he'd give a very good answer about his sudden role.
that the Sentinel road today not looking great for the theory there
however coming up next and when we're looking at GX specifically
Dude, thought to know when your map pick is really rough dude
Just yet and kick off at least so maybe
It's one of those that's easy to get over
Last year it can be resurfacing here or do you think that the mana shift is too dire for them to replicate that?
Can't remember the memories last year, it's so early in the year
We didn't have to raise the map to the left here
Not at all?
Oh, come on, Minni.
It's been long, no doubt.
Yeah, we literally never mind that at least last year.
So I wonder if they do lean back
into that kind of double initiator identity
that we've seen from Giant X.
I think that that could potentially work out
from them here.
West side, I would like to see on the Viper
rather than the Chamber, I think.
Okay, well that's exactly what you're getting, Billy.
Yeah, apparently I am getting that.
I think to see Gribby on the Omen as well
is interesting.
I know that Minni and I have kind of been
discussing the Viper Omen,
by her astral type of situation like this kind of composition it works well they'll be able to fight
for that even if they're very heavily with the children they're going to be able to
set out their own way again. I think both comps here are looking very comfortable
and I don't see a breach this time so I'm not happy with it. And you see a jet.
Yeah I'm intrigued. I don't like jet that much but I think a breeze is a second
jewel this is absolutely fine and for someone like Derrick who's just very comfortable on it
I think it makes a lot of sense. Giant X they're going back to that hour of flicks.
Yeah, I mean this is the old school of war. This is old school of war. He used to work on this map and then he's got an Ottoman in him.
Like this is fine, it's just, it just seems, again, it's old school. This just seems better.
What are you doing there? Spotty don't have a second Jaws?
One of these must be able to play Jaws this month.
You could be new to play Jaws ages ago.
I just fully rely on them.
All games on Jet?
It's not great.
Yeah, and I think it's gonna be a lot about Aura this month, I think.
Just the jet on this map is gonna be by himself on that tool list.
Get the operator out, hopefully, which we know he's very good at on the event sites.
Yeah, well, we don't have to call there any longer, because once again, we are ready to head into our second map of today.
Breeze with Hazar and Cairo, who seemed to be giving us the...
Westside's fighting games on jet?
Didn't maybe do that, but...
It would certainly seem that way.
You could throw all you knew about this GX team in the previous map out of the window,
heading into breeze there is nothing on record for the time being so what happened
you made to her mr. Maps
I mean it's a fast stomp dude
yeah it is such an easy reset it's not wrong
you can just laugh it off
It doesn't matter about any of the plays that happened in that last map, no one's going to win anyway, so it's not like anyone's dwelling on it, just if you can laugh it off.
Which should be fine.
Try next on defense, Vitality on attack.
Sammy as well, thank you with the prime dude, thank you, thank you.
this game against Vitality. It's not suited the best so far. The pistol round is a great
way to start. And so the only team to have been 13 or twice. Was Cloud in the team with
that? Oh he must have been. Let's have a say. This is strong, a whole back of sight.
This is a little different from Vitality. What's she doing this? Yeah.
Right, you gotta feel comfy to do this.
I've never seen this.
Just wait for their reactions.
Dude, I gotta give it to Yampi, man.
He calls like the mid-rounding he did it on that corrode game where a three-person walk towards spawn as well
Like he does some break things
The most teams don't feel comfy doing
I say Dark is gonna kill everyone for a fecal OHP
Oh, very nice for Westside. They're on the board. I'm giving it.
They're fast round for the CX.
oh really becoming like a thing yeah it's cool most of us on a senior
it's a little low on the bias
but we'll see.
Oh, I mean that's not too bad, you find out that the sheriff's over towards B as well.
Why do you don't go for the instapop?
What's the kind of surprise?
Minigame specs.
Can't really send it.
Yeah, this is one of the better walls because of this getting there, but overall on site
gives them a little too much space, so I imagine they only do this on the Eco.
Yay, some armor rebies for that fit.
So Yampy, that's closer to his dimensional drift as well, just two of these.
Woo!
Let's hold back!
That's exactly what you're going to do, though.
Keep the vibes up as much as possible.
This is how Vitality built their own empire on the previous map.
If GX can snowball this with a bonus round win,
Dude, Yampi might take fast contact on this as well.
Oh.
Oh, do they actually do this all the time?
Like, sure, you get an aim and control, but...
I guess you just take it down when you're at X-Second.
Oh, yeah, that was the only possible light armor.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, we keep talking about this gun being strong.
There was last 14 hours, surely not.
Oh!
I bet homeless in terms of really get this fake to go because I mean gx are well stocked either side of the map
Really running timing on this is cloud around
Okay, close that it could be happening
Good guns to pick up as well next in a good spot
At least for the time being back into mid he goes
but on fake does get a better off it
it's just him versus the cock right now
as Vitality will look to reset in the next
but a huge win for GX to keep the ball rolling
yeah I'm wondering to myself
is Vitality maybe came in a little bit too complacent
overconfident because you've seen some of the mistakes
I mean it's got wrecked by an outlaw
maybe
maybe the Ori is gonna tuck in on TP
to take these jewels
Vitality may be underestimating the opponent a little bit, which uh, yeah
Perhaps right. I mean it's so easy to do
I have no idea cloud you would be both
But it is one of those ones like you said sometimes you get overconfident
Maybe you peak an angle where you know when everything you touch is gold and you're feeling like Midas on map one
You just need that mental reset and that's the bigger picture with vitalities kickoff campaigns so far as well having won those
First couple matches and now coming into this off the back of the feet
Hey, the armor makes the difference for the guns someone else. He's got the armor
And show me
That's fine
about him and at this moment in time well gx code considering there is a lot of
bodies identified through that knife question is the vitality maybe want to
invest this year or do they have bigger plans for it at this point in time I
mean yeah still a pack of four pistols I thought for a moment the deck would be
the one to get the bladestorm online you know give something else a little bit
more yeah that I mean like that's the question right like oh this is a
great pickup for him though. Welcome to Laura and all that. Out Laura in hand. That's an old one.
Let's see it. It's a little hot under the collar now as my Tati had made the most of the mid-control,
but flickless, stamping down where it stands, the orb doing the heavy lifting on the main
side of the push and Grubby has already wrapped back around. Okay, that was so fun.
for just a moment but still all eyes on clearly as the closer here vitality don't
have time they don't have space one enemy remaining and if flickers doesn't finish
it off first the cloud will instead grubby's just been flanking for the
last days next to the whole round the world for nothing gx get everything
for it at all yeah I heard about this desk the next biggest task will come
on it doesn't surprise me to try and contest with the decent for vitalities
if we do lose that as we spoke about that bleach that has come online. I think the big
component for this one would be Yampi's dimensional drift. From the other side of
the server, Flicklus has a null command to respond. Now with Breeze being such a big map
to see the impact he can find on that here and what the timing looks like, it's a nice to
set up arrow for this early peak like the operating up, fast heading bot and vitality will rail
the weir of what GX will be wanting to do without a harrowing...
Instant Yorah all and there's not really...
...after making that first incision, young people wasting no time to use Yorah all...
...new one class to get some space up for this.
It's a cool Yorah all to get here though, I mean they're not going to meet anyone
and then the comms are too late that he can't get out of there, that's pretty cool.
...5 vs 3 situation with vitality still scaling into the cross and...
...and then you end up just letting over towards A.
So the supply line goes dry
GX
Best to take what they have to the last reaction on this. Yeah, it's a little bit of a different way to use the oral
It's cool though. He's just got AFKs. He looks to play Joker and potentially cutting off any rotates
And with that being not undiscovered for GX vitality can use that again and for the rounds if they wanted
But overall opera or saved
Vitality happy to be back to winning the ways
He's became tonight where say that see and he's actually come away with two and as you just hear
Yeah, and I thought you need to keep their money good what you can't fully out for this
Now vitality don't want to hunt three can buy for two, but not the other way round and when you look at the credits
On those bottom three players on the right-hand side of the HUD
The money isn't great. So
Just taking things one step at a time
same as should be on the minds of the GX players as they have given themselves a
foothold to really dig into now in this game and arrows are not quite seeing
itself as a component of that just yet but a real facilitator for the macro
yeah I mean that's no like I guess I don't want to be too harsh on that
just yet because you might like build into this one but we didn't see it
work on a best I know the first time we've seen it on bees that's the
The first team that by reality actually won a round.
And I think the story on both sides at least from that previous game is form versus class, right?
Dirk has that history.
Yeah, and there's Cork, and there's K.O.L.
But I'm perturbed by the situation here, blades around.
Oh, nice idea though.
When you know you're up against a K.O.L. to use your dash early on middle to catch him off.
K.O.L. is not going to stop it.
It seems as if they might be forced to try and head towards the east side where the spake was already pleased
This is exactly what GX would be hoping for at least from the broader perspective that you're not available to be used to clear it out
You can see it's been the same default from vitality GX been pretty happy to give them orb control
Will be a concessions in terms of a fight back to the server they get the oh
I don't know.
Dude mate, probably the last time I've seen the sova try or a jet.
Felix's been ages.
Yeah, it might not happen, it's a very nice rematch.
Check, that's the second team that we've seen up here from a high position. Get the kill, the entry.
And it seems as if the operator wants to take the kill.
Oh yeah, it's great shots from Cron.
And so on this one, some shot thoughts should do good damage though.
Cron always the gold standard, another beating heartbeat.
Definitely a little thing to note is they plant for A main.
So many teams can get this plant for A main and they plant safe.
It's relatively safe now, this new plant for A main.
He protects the pit from the outsafe. It's not a player you want to try and challenge and certainly not now
And it's praying derka. He wants to hunt down the last remaining is where save looks to escape
He's been successful so far
The west side is off in exactly that direction derka already circling in blood in the water
Vitality have their second round now secured with a spike detonation in a moment's time
Mine is so good for drone so they can survive this.
Yeah, the Utah was pretty good though. I mean, Arid did great. He just had to hit the second shot that he missed.
Utah was nice and I was trying to push him off, recon late.
caught and undone by someone in a vertical position which realistically like
when you get to the second round you should start to look at everyone's money
it's so good who knows I just have to see
op is still a line for GX though yeah but you look at the money and it's
really starting to cost them as well it is round not quite a swing yet in
in terms of the finance, but Vitality are keeping them honest here. And I'm fake, still holding
on to the Hunter's Fury. Could just be looking for it in their execution here, probably dropping
back to a deeper line of cover, but Darker happy to play Chase. All coming in, trying
to set up this play and Yumpy is the one rewarded instead. Fake out turned by
Cloud.
Still where's Darker going?
I could just overlooks it captain committed to this position and the only store on the side as it stands
Yeah, but it's Bakelestone and looking like this. He has the keel ultimate
They're still playing from this one way there which continues to persist beyond that KOL as it pops in
thrown to the
I got to that replay from y'all to get a double it
With that vitality drive that third round home
Why swings into two and pops them both?
Oh, that's nice shot.
momentum firmly at their backs.
It's again trying to rally the troops. His calls unfortunately
fell on deaf ears in that first map, but this is already a
better showing. Vitality on the other hand, just trying to
keep that steady curve of improvement when you look at
their placements since partnerships began in this
context. Last year wasn't what they were looking for, but
It's a culture shift that we're expecting with the changes to the roster, the coaching staff,
what's been brought in from BBL. And it matches like these where if you can show a little bit
Okay, yeah, that goes off there, man. You're on the right track.
He's trying to catch someone off over towards middle. Last year's vitality was like the
Galacticos. You could see the potential of the roster. I guess he's trying to get here.
And the best way. And now when we look at this, what is a completely different beast?
Seems sort of, um, renowned, renowned for it, but like, a-a completely different system.
Well, I am still my next as well.
And it comes from all the way up the top, to the-to the last player in the pack.
Exactly.
The Alchemist is so good, they'd buy for the rest of the stuff.
We're all balanced and with some spice in there.
I think it's just pointless to throw this one way, no?
Right, if there's Viper Wars here?
Like, why are we even doing this?
Trophy, winning players you can sign to a roster before, you know, one comes your way.
Maybe they're trying to play pressure here, but they're gonna do it once, I feel like.
Yeah, that's nice for me, I think that's what they should have done in the other round.
Viper wall.
I mean, I don't mind it, because teams are doing this Viper wall close to here anyway,
way you might as well get the benefit of having an aim aimer. It's better than the
ones the people are doing here. The main problem is this but again you just drop it.
I guess with this you at least have that extra angle for when they get over
towards sight. Can drop it and rack them up contact. It's definitely better than
though this one, but I still think the further deep turn is that, personally, just comes across
first. This one's good for aiming brush. Big shock. This is like another round example, right?
Could they not just plant for the aiming? Big shock. They change up from the Larkov towards
stores. The trigger discipline from Cron here is crazy. He was watching him for a long time there,
like two seconds, three seconds. He won into the double.
I agree, you gotta show me why you're playing the carry, huh?
Like the early knives over towards B is kinda nice, but...
Dude, I just don't get the point of warm weighing this every single round if they're just using the wall to take it.
You just smoke down the whole time.
You gotta play here one round surely.
use the paranoia this time it's not gonna hit but he does still find a kill off the back of it
click this as well yeah there's a low hesitation from vitality is he looking for a gear
can't come in the 1v1 perfect in so much space to all be he's been making moves from early hit
chronicle in on the ground floor looking to see if he can build up the rest of vitality
on his back depends on us killing it on the run he's made cron wins the duel
Oh my god
Yeah, I promise, Kong could be anywhere
Either end of the map and we'll be taking his time on this flank again. I'm a flasher recon and a biplane
So this is a completely isolated jewel trying to buy as much attention as possible
But when does the coin drop is there even enough time for this?
So long to go through the motions grubby just has to cancel that's it
The round is done flick let's walk away with as many lovely cancel on this and it's so nice
So so nice
He's so on top of this though
And he's also the B player so he should kind of know where people would be with the
So it's just a great example of why he should just have four one in a lot of songs
Means you can cancel, means you can go back and you can take the space
It's only one when you're around
still had a paranoia and it was so unwinnable for giant x even after who
will they defend the AC
there is still money beneath this GX team around is fiscally possible but
physically still waiting for that result the momentum has shifted as it was
all one way at the start of this series. Do not rub your eyes. The top left is not deceiving
you right now if you've just joined. Maybe Vitality best tend to say they do give JNX
a head start, but the first round taking the team in terms of what they want.
Waiting to see if JNX make the boss move.
I think when you even just look at the philosophy of Powell's teams in the past,
Focus bbl freeze haven always been maps. Yeah, they've liked to try and work with really
Making the most of that macro game stretching you. Yeah, I mean expansive maps has been one of his
Criteria in terms of a coach being able to coach that macro
To get lineup for several but it just so passed that point great shot
right between them and so a three-on-three set up but still cron lurking yeah he's still
gonna sneak bait as well unfit with two shots where does he play from looks to be on-site all
alone but does have the protection of Decker's op keep an eye on the luck under the microscope
but has this line held for a shot one line bit up it's so nice bro the cron looks incredibly
come fail on this map.
The worst bus deaths of the league
With so much money there might be backup guns for this but
Blitzing against BPL
Different standard here perhaps but
225 is such a good pick up team as far as GX are concerned
First final in EMEA in stage two
and here it's bits and pieces a couple sheriffs Marshall still feels quite static in terms
of their positioning
the threat in the vitality can bring at any moment in time the fact that there's only
two here and four for vitality makes
That was incredibly fast, I swear.
I wouldn't unfake buy an owl or so, I made three of them, so there were too much.
Some people wouldn't do too to be honest, I'm so famed too but...
Oops.
Yeah, maybe you're right, maybe we should have won.
Yeah, plenty of time on this one.
Yeah, plenty of time on this one. Maybe we should be dueling so heavy.
Yeah, 4v3 off the punch.
This was like a good example of this wall though, a lot of the time I keep speaking about every
time I see it.
Like in this wall here because it's so close to this area, it's meant that they get close
and they can pop flash through it.
It's a little further back, first of all you have the crossfires before they actually
crossfires before they actually have to pop through so like their flash has to hit multiple
angles or it's just easier to turn the flash if you're over towards air because of the
throwfile. Even though it's good for A man again it does have its disavowance.
The actual look's decent, doesn't make it connect to second ball, but crying and running out of the smoke, it's an easy pick up, the dicks connect, they're directed up to the left side, as they go from back site, and win the Jules, but still Grabigno from the corner, he tries to hold on, but doesn't act as if it's being fake, so Spake recollected, and essentially a 2v2.
Oh, I off the line many couldn't land the flake west side still flanking it. Yeah, and he's gonna get me
Oh, I thought it's this bike, not the case
So tripping this one for unfake
You could get off this bike so fast in this game in a shoot
Come back with an operator, it's the worst position he needs to attempt this
With this being the last round, there is a rifle in front of them
But almost deceiving an opportunity to pick up
So instead goes with the operator doesn't want to turn to a five seven any sound cues to someone to pick them
The team is taking away you need to get a move on me because you won't have chance to even try and diffuse
That's already down to sixteen health vitality
Gotta be demoralizing on that
Advantage to the next half an unreal round from on fake as well outside the range of the KO counter all
setting up the execution and then finishing it off cleanly
Vitality, keep an advantage on the half. Is it enough to bring it home?
Ah, what are you doing for today, bruv?
Wingman World, well, Wingman World, well wha-
Can they still laugh this one off? Ah, this one's a bit-
This one's harder, man.
They're still in, uh, have a break. Have a kick cap.
Wingman World, while wanting a well, what break-
You're already speaking about-
Let's go!
You're only speaking about what you're gonna be doing on this half, so it's not too bad.
You know most people think about how it would have been a better half than this.
Have a first map?
Oh, it's fun to see.
Team Secret Zeta? Yeah I have to get up early. Is it the first game? Getting up early for
Team Secret Zeta? I'm not super pumped about it, I'll be honest. It's not too bad. Like
I've got up for a while, I'll say that much. But I'm not like... I'm not going to wake
up excited for it.
I think they're favorites.
I'm just worried they just get to out aim.
They didn't look that bad, they just got out aim.
They can get out aim to get in.
I agree with you.
good for gx but when you consider the fact they're up against double dual list as well
it's a classic, the B split the only flash has, yamp is going full
it's a confident pistol
I
Can't have been any better the way they were around the only flush east
Yeah, that's a bit of correction I mean his mates come for sure
Yeah, try showing what the pistol round should look like.
Oh, that looks good with that.
Oh.
When Scepter is going to be another professional roam from Vitality, only losing one.
Blink and you will miss it. GX sent marching orders from the B site. Two rounds consecutive.
The question is, will they now start to die fall? Should we get anything else?
This is already much better from Dirkus.
Why did I win instead of Astra on this? It could be that high.
There's good positions where you can...
Nice!
good positions like in terms of getting on top of the best quality especially on
defense there's a lot of boxes that are like pretty decent for it I would say
this one way is better with Omen being able to enter a bit towards site but I
think the honestly I think most people play Omen just for this Omen for sure
that seems to be the most common use not that not that people fight it
Well
Oh, so if you got the ass, sorry if you get the viper a lot of the times the the viper can do the lurking
The astra isn't like needed because you have the viper lurk is just as fine. Omen's better in the pack
I'm not saying Omen's better
trying to save up if we use it. Maxness, thanks so much for the 2-1, appreciate the 18 months.
If that was the, Cron plays this one position every single time, but he plays it so well.
Once he starts getting that Oden out, it looks incredible in 3-1.
I'm surprised other teams haven't started using his, uh, his own, uh, water flash, that was.
Dude, look at all the HPs back there saying.
Dude, Dirkham might clean this up, eh?
Dude, look at the HPs.
back it's profit looking for more than just the one thousand kills
delicate to do it all though the smoke fades the angles open up but it just
goes rough to try and dissect the star of the show this time GX do get on the
board yeah the able to win out the lose to for it but this year ten you'll
take it and to watch the next that means I mean I would just use the
We would just use the, um, ashtray to the left.
The fakes mix was so nice as well.
Maybe this would be one of the better maps to have though.
in terms of how they're playing in that spot. Now if he spots the hand of Ara, they almost
take off the second engagement, but he tries to find the flakless, go down.
He picks up the arp. Very humbly responding, though.
Go on mate, keep him facing, go on. The player on the right, the car watch just goes down,
and the former steps up in his place. The unfickness, see this, has not been
placed in substitution. What, like, part of the roster, power the order,
something to shock about this, but point and do it, yeah, okay.
He's dark as closing in.
Hey, I'm fake. What a round.
He's in bangers.
It's been great to see this performance from him here as well because I have to say I was looking back at the stats and actually his kickoff performance so far on the whole has been just so far from where he was in stage 2 when he was in game leading as well.
So yeah just having that freedom.
Nice Bartos!
Definitely helping him out.
Seems like the Vitality Coaching Staff is enjoying this but if you're a GX fan you won't be
You're expecting them to pick something up here, man. It's B again. Yeah, no deviation
so
is heading towards the mid-tunnel, but
You would hope they would try peek the op
Extraction
Definitely looks like
to retake man.
I'm going to start retaking this.
Old force spawn?
up for a groppy and I speak on down yes huge tool in post plan here
yeah but the players have escaped out through the wall as their company needs to be careful of
pirate's possession he did come from tunnel last day can he do a second time and prove good
and shine eggs look to respond oh fine looking over here at the money
mentality caught off guard they're made to eat my work
I got a 1-9 loss of bones going.
He's sent BBL Strap. We saw someone do this on A, right?
This is the B version, basically.
Watch middle. I mean, limit is too much sound over towards B.
I want to say that they had someone watching and this is what I'm not entirely sure, they did late.
Awesome Danton, Eco, Darkin, Hero Gun. Yeah, he can buy up a few ones next round.
by just to protect what could be the round cone in the next one yeah classics
marshals we're expecting right next to win this expecting being the key word
sure yeah we can run with that line the headline here in this round four by
I suppose would be like chronicles
Marshall
Maybe young peace bandit who knows
Steal away at eco here or there but
Like
There is
Yeah, that's just looking do it once again, but
Nilly teed up for more
and perhaps but not quite walking out so we are with them to that expectation
net kind of felt like yampi for the mobile except it's bandit plays man with
a really key knife to see if we can anything pansy and hypo really but I
love it me some selves I was very much enjoying them trying to get you to
give us that chaos model like the chaos been looking for so far he's top
for the pubs is always all here as well yeah only there's something to be said
about yeah I think I always does look good on the playgrounds like I said
young who's gonna be out there long-range keep a bulletin set in a
lot of lie on this man it's probably mr. Mr. Trek with me
so that's impossible to dodge
well the third one is chasing shadows I guess we're three people that heard of
got the heavy on them
I don't know for sure
oh my god the whole team
bike the haircare routine again of course here what conditioner
uh i don't know i just hit the shoulders i'll be completely honest at least you
don't have dandruff that's true
um vitality look this is a 2v2 on the beloved b-side
30 seconds left duck at elevated angle you're a big fan of ours
hey it's done the damage i'll try the xy's as well and i've got a taste of
of their own medicine so with 20 seconds remaining and Ara not feeling too healthy himself that's
probably gonna be a save call for the team. Yeah I mean Vitality need to ensure that the money's
good so much so that I should be going for this but... Why wouldn't you be? It's worth a
roll of the dice but anything beyond this. Maybe according to question Vitality's still not
with the best of finances. Chronicle backing his ability and well had he peaked it,
cloud is just sat with the melee out heading into this next round gx do have so many ults to
work with and for a team which is so fundamentally sound as well i feel like one of the biggest
missing pieces today is just the amount of individual fights we're seeing taken where
there isn't really a set up to see anything more develop off the back of that's so many
the ult so that it should be good for one.
I think it's gonna hit.
That's the one.
But it's gonna hit too.
Yeah, sometimes it's worth getting hit by this nice it feels like.
Probably worth just to be for an NK hit by this.
The great pressure here anyway, gonna make him use PTO early.
Nice for the amp, probably now he should TP, but...
He got some help from his mate.
He's gonna obey from him as well.
I would also do giant X-Miles or something like that.
Oh, what happened there?
Oh my, that's a bit ball gumpy.
Yeah, I have any team flash completely on me.
It's just for him fever of giant eggs and that vape has pecked down
Sheen by Flicklus
A thousand page doc on that one, but for now
Someone's getting spammed, surely
His health was low the classic would have been enough the profit round the seeds not had the base of maps even though
He did get that dozent!
Unfortunately, it looks like Cron will be looking to covet the operator.
If he even gets a chance to...
And he won't need your clouds to put the final details on it.
GX back with the team.
He's calling time out here, because this play from Yampi was a little...
So why is he having to use his most skill and bring down his nades?
I have absolutely no idea.
We'll have to round review maybe.
We'll go back again.
Let's get many to get the tele-
This replays.
You saw on the replay there as well.
Yeah, it was.
I'm wondering if it was.
What a stacked replay that was.
Yeah.
Things not really going the way that either team would have hoped there,
but GX do profit from the situation
and it has forced a vitality time out here
to just try and correct things.
I mean they're getting a little bold with some of that plays.
You know, have to be around with someone to judge out as well, but the suit is thrown
towards Dole, or maybe short.
And then Hamein as well.
It'll be a nice head clearer as well for the French org and see what happens
Still with the lead as it stands
chasing a game which is
Always felt a step ahead of them from that first man. This makes all the sense
Contextive Friso and so we are yet to see from our attackers. This their debut a ground though
Clickless firing and also E-climate Vitality, who is this?
Be the catalyst for the rest of his team.
I'm looking to clear mid, but Vitality right off the back of this.
Into elbow, making themselves known, and Groovy goes down.
No trade.
Yeah, it's impossible to get the trade as well as Vitality retreat.
Happy with what they've got, and JNX feeling themselves forced
to try and put pressure elsewhere on the map.
of
the
Dealing good damage in the meantime
But yampion transition has arrived on the A site three versus three here
Someone's got the recon back in sight
Damn, I got four out of this
Double digits on the horizon unless Darker has something to say
There'd be a monumental three versus one
There's all the utility and his ult meffi needs it
I mean he should save his ult for next round
West side yet to make his way back in duck is in the firing line.
Yeah, it's unlucky.
Dash is close, sir.
But you can't play with us.
He welcomes that with open arms.
He has to get to 10.
Yeah, that is you.
All right, that's no five rooms on the attack to the floor of vitality.
Yeah, just on the way out of some of the angles.
Nearly similar towards that first half.
So we really need to keep our eyes on this as it's getting very, very close.
West side got a bit of redemption on Cron there as well.
Good luck.
Let's keep an eye on Durka. Heavy armor roll.
is
I don't even have a drawing of the chlorine but how much can you possibly do with that?
Yeah, I mean especially when you've got RACI behind the wall ready to go...
Shots of being heard, but in the end, sometimes a two vs one...
from unfake, and we'll see what he's actually known about,
but he doesn't know whether thatThypher of Wesse does.
Oh does he?
Yeah, part and gift of a smoke there, but-
That drops?
Yeah, and now the snake being half, so unfake takes to the rifle,
See if that's where we can find my money
Having the confidence to go for it
Even though their own cone. Oh, but anxious in my books. Yeah
Well, we move on to the limits of regulation nonetheless and again our is the saving grace for this GX side
Frickless to flash in and getting started the conflict goes around the corner
this time
That is now five rounds from six for giant eggs
They really flip the script in this second half the attack going through the motions and now I could get some
Big change up looking like they are picked the right side on this one
I just want to go fast just straight up drawn into silver or sender
I have done at 11 to 11. They try the lock on
No way, while dodging a serve at all?
Fair play man, that's nuts.
Oh, nuts.
With the serve at all?
Great shots bro.
That's a nice flash as well.
flash as well.
Crad, I'm gonna crad around for him.
Okay, one go at the easy two nil.
I think it's the Odin out over towards A, and honestly this might be a little underrated.
I don't know how well it works in this angle.
Oh, he did good damage there.
Maybe he should have tracked in considering the Yampi was close.
Still, that's a res.
Yeah, they overheated a little bit with the fast counts.
They got a little excited.
the health pools once again not feverish GX that could be a big molly's it
posts flick less into the open and today because arms the wall goes up stops
vitality anymore lines of sight look at each piece
looking to try and hold on now and a one versus two to keep GX in the series
force them to over time and I'm not harping
they've got a little scary definitely vitality in some of these rounds that they think they've won
They kinda give him a wail.
Nice to know, I thought it was going to be a really long day after that Fnatic game, but...
into the next, but we're still not enough for a first time out on Braze.
Yeah, I mean, you can already see the individual performances, even from both, say, Drake,
with such a close map. I think Profit, the only outlier there, even though he did get that one key,
that riffle tray, but overall, I think the big part here is just hope that he's a Vitality Wheel.
And when the Wheel do...
Fnatic play Vitality right?
The Fnatic play Vitality and then they'll play the loser whoever wins that lose with the fast bust of fines
This is such a big game
The last leg week of this has been so fun. I like the triple limb man, I'm really enjoying
the triple limb. I think it's been great to watch.
With prediction, I think Vitality win it, but I can't be like very confident in it.
I definitely think that they vote for me actually.
it is but great performance for Vitality 13-0, it managed to close out the second map as well which
a little bit closer but I think that's a great estimate to GX as well in regards to what they had
in the tank today. Yeah for sure I just want to like quickly speak on Giant X before we wait on
Yampian Chronicle coming here as well. I think in terms of Giant X their approach to Breeze it
still looks good. I think something that Mini and I had kind of discussed was the composition
They went for a link leading back into that double in a share. I think he's gone
Yeah, at least they stuck to their identity if that makes sense like yeah, we finished today
But I'd rather them be very clear on what their composition looks like and what that identity is rather than
Try and go for something wacky and crazy and that not pay off if that makes sense. So yeah, I mean
Yeah, they'll sound very convinced, but you know what I'm gonna give you this one
But with this last
I'm gonna be dropping into that lower bracket. So maybe going back to that drawing board specifically when we're looking at abyss because that was
Yeah, that happens. The Venus Fanatic do get better and better
I just feel like some of the rounds
I mean, you kind of look at how it's your playing some of these rounds though. Fanatic's gonna stay up a lot for me
Yeah, it is a tough one. It definitely is a tough one
I think yeah now they obviously find themselves dropping into that lower bracket
so they now need to be able to find the form quicker rather than later.
Absolutely. Surprise, by the way, everybody.
We're joined here this time around with Chronicle and Yampi.
Congratulations, guys.
I'm going to start off with the 13-0.
Who wants to take that one?
Yeah, I can take it.
It was a redemption for me last year, you know, a revenge, you know.
We tried and denied us in the other championship place so I wanted to come back with the banks.
Fair enough. It did feel a little bit personal.
It did. That's kind of funny because I had kind of set this match up.
I was like, oh there's a little bit of a grudge match here so to hear that you wanted to 13-or-1 because of the champs run last year is very interesting.
But I also wanted to ask you about the prep, Jampi, because you guys came into a BIS as much as it was the dominant scoreline.
score line the prep looked so good was majority of that prep based or was it like you i gling calling in
the moment hi prep we had a good preparation we knew the comp that they're gonna play we knew
kind of how to play especially on attack side and uh yeah i changed some of my routines earlier
in the day that maybe helped absolutely i mean from my perspective it was also like our comp is
their counter yeah like uh literally i mean if i like the cooldown adapters for the whole
defense side for them but at the same time like what they could do like when
their comp is around like flooding doing some crazy stuff fully reclearing and
you have just one agent that blocks the whole utility so I mean you cannot do
anything and you have to suffer I say and that's it like I mean sometimes
that's the problem those comps like you just like if they're just one side
that you cannot have plan B or at least they didn't create a plan B to
actually play super well against that but it is really this.
Unfortunately, sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles, that for GX that was a 13-0.
I also want to go into the crap that you guys have done for this week specifically because last week against VBL,
it was also a little bit more one-sided from their end of things.
We spoke to Durka earlier and he said that you guys had commented a lot of pages.
Pal and the coach confession kind of said the same thing.
We're focusing on fundamental, focusing on communication.
Has that been like, I'll start with you currently, so the focus for this week, for you specifically?
I think the biggest problem was the game against BBL, particularly because previously it wasn't that obvious.
I think it was more of our team play and how we interacted with each other.
There was many, many issues about us even doing basic mistakes like not even peeking together sometimes.
and it was just snowboarding us into some very bad moments.
If you look for example on the BBL match once again, you can look...
Yeah, there were some moments where we could easily take advantage of us maybe winning some crucial rounds and something,
especially on Haven after winning a pistol, but after we instantly lost the anti-EQ round just because of very poor fundamentals.
Obviously, you're going to lose this game, and this time we decided to focus only on fixing those type of mistakes,
because strategically we cannot really prove are the strats again good or not
like maybe we need to change them or not just because like if we have bad
fundamentals how you can say that strats are bad I think that's like very
important topping to talk about and that's what was our main focus I want
to ask you about joining the team's band pal, that kind of fun though, they want to get 1v1
we have been performing really well even in that loss against VBL last week
How has it been joining this organization being part of this roster and also how has it been jumping on to the veto?
Because this feels like something very new to you.
Yeah, the veto is definitely new. Even though it is already played with it.
It's really the same.
I would not say that the really was that much different, but like we did some changes.
I think it's very nice to play in Vitality.
I want to say a lot of support from both fans and the organization itself.
Like, also I'm surrounded by the insanely great people.
Like, you cannot even imagine how happy I am to play with all those guys.
You look happy as well.
I mean, that was my biggest surprise, because obviously, after coming from successful rosters,
like, having all the time, like, pretty, very good players, I would say, at least,
not if not the best on their roles especially.
Like, coming to the team, obviously, like, people will say I'm crazy or that was a risk, but,
like first of all like we can prove them wrong right now or maybe later that like they were obviously
wrong about my teammates and second thing you know so yeah I mean they surprised me as well
like I'm enjoying the playing the game right now and I'm having a lot of fun with all of them
and like it doesn't matter like if we win or lose I think I'm still happy at least for now
I'd love to hear that that's really sorry absolutely and Yampi also from your experience
with the team now that you're in the position that you're in and having such great prep and
so like really great people behind you to be able to set you up for success. How has that been for
you? Yeah I mean it's incredible to have players like Kron and it's been I think my job what I try
to do is just make sure that they are playing their best every game. So I try to support them
even when I'm playing girl I try to support them as much as possible in and outside the game
that I make sure that they're feeling good they're playing good and yeah I mean it's nice
I can't say I'm surprised, playing with them, how good they are, because they have proven
it in the past, but yeah, it feels good.
Well, does that look like then making people feel comfortable off the server and in the
server?
Like, what's the makings of a good IGL?
I mean, I can ask for a few.
For IGL, the easiest job is to make everyone else's lives easier, and just make them
play the proper game without sacrificing their individual performance. Also keeping the team
in that cycle of actually powering through all the problems and also not falling apart
because I think IGL is the hardest role, first of all. People underestimate what IGL
does in the team and also people are not really understanding what IGL should do and
what qualities he should have for in order to be that good IGL. And also in my experience
there are actually not that many actual agents who will be really proud of themselves calling
an IGL. And like for me, Yankee is the one because he has. I mean, like for me, it's very
important for an IGL being that like a rock that like actually not moving, like he is
also like full of energy. And also he's when he needs he can be straight when he
needs to be more easier and people calmer. He also doing that. I mean, understanding
people that psychology of human beings is very important that people should also
understand while being a nitrile. I mean this is crazy and I can yell for it for 10 years.
Yeah I was gonna say, he's happy though. He's very happy with his team.
Culture built around Vitality in this roster this year. Tell me about Profec, what on earth
happened today? I think he got like his first death on a bus on round 12? For anyone
that's not had Profec on their radar?
Really? We're gonna start paving?
Paved everyone and it still didn't make it happen, bro.
But I mean, he's a very nice guy.
I mean, I don't want to call that word, but he's a Clown of War team.
That's a good thing.
But Clown is in a very good way.
He consistently keeps the right mood for the teammates,
even when something is going wrong.
Sometimes he also might be a little bit more harsh than usual,
but I think it's a very good way.
And, again, his ability to play smokes is super good.
He's one of the most skilled smokes players, at least in EMEA.
And maybe if he'll have a chance to prove it, he'll do it also on international stage,
which I hope we'll do as well, all together.
But yeah.
To get to the international, you have to beat Fnatic next.
We actually had the...
Oh, great.
I like this already.
We had Alpha earlier.
And he referred to you guys as Fnatic Academy?
Well, it's BBL Academy.
We have more people from BBL than from Fnatic, so...
Anything you want to say to him though in that regards?
Yeah, I mean, if it's BBL Academy, I think I can't remember how Fnatic record is versus BBL Academy.
I mean, I cannot.
It'll be hilarious if Fnatic Academy next time beats against the main team, who knows?
Who knows? We're gonna have to wait and see, but that is the match coming up.
Also, in general, I would ask you with how the bracket has played out.
It's been so fun.
It's been some of the teams that we've seen going to internationals.
GX now included is in this low bracket after this loss.
Are there any teams that really surprised you with how they have performed, whether that is like they've done really well or they've just like not lived up to your expectations, Jampi?
I think only teams that have surprised these gendarmes for me.
Okay.
Because, I mean, it's just a surprise that they did so well.
I think BBL were in my, I said it before that they were one of the favourites in Mappin and with Choyons because they were the only team that didn't do any roster changes during the off-season.
So I expected those two to do well, but I think Channel mates are surprised.
Yeah, same for me. I think BBL always say like, I think I was expecting them to do good.
Like, I never underestimated them and I feel like they obviously are now proving everyone that they are super good team.
Like, I mean, through the whole years of tier 2 they were just destroying everyone and even on Ascension.
They were playing super well. So I mean, that was no surprise that they will do well here.
And yeah, I think everyone else, I mean, it's hard to mix up, like, I thought BBL Pacific, oh, no, BBL Pacific, so it is Pacific, Pacific will do better, but honestly, they go to unlucky.
Does it surprise either of you though that Gentlemates or BBL are going to be the number one seed for EMEA going into Masters Santiago?
I mean honestly like what can I say I don't care about this yes
If gentlemen's will go as a facility yes, if you be a no
You guys are great perfect great. We also have the games for tomorrow. Okay, so they're wrapping up. Give me a give me a stream
I'm not the one that's up in my head, which is exactly why they're doing this.
Do you have staples?
Do you have any laws in front of you?
I'm a KC, I'm a liquid woman.
I mean, I was surprised you said KC.
I've been looking for that since they were home with friends.
I cannot say, not KC, so KC of course.
And the second one, liquid.
I think that's based.
Yeah.
I'll reserve my judgement until tomorrow.
agreement we absolutely love that you see a synergy in the team but yeah on the
server and even on the phone well thank you both so much for joining us and congratulations
on today's win that's it from us today we're gonna be back again tomorrow same time
same place so I hope to see you then enjoy the rest of your evening we'll see
you tomorrow but before we leave we'll leave you with the razor end of day
highlights all right thank you so much guys thank you thank you I will see
you all tomorrow God Pacific and then EMEA whatever time zone works for you
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